Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey
By: Peter Guralnick
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Rock & roll, jazz, R&B, hip-hop: Without question, today's most popular sounds owe an incalculable …
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1. How Music Works
By: David Byrne
4.00
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more
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"Performers try harder."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"You might say that the universe plays the blues."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself."-David Byrne, How Music Works
2. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
3. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
By: Martin Short
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this engaging memoir, written with heart, wisdom, and a huge helping of hilarity, Martin Short s… read more
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"To my beloved friends, there’s simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I’d look for new friends and get them."-Martin Short, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
4. I Am Not Your Negro
By: James Baldwin , Raoul Peck
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined … read more
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5. Journey to the Center of the Earth
By: Jules Verne , Kim Stanley Robinson , Lowell Bair
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims … read more
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"Axel,"-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"Then don’t you despair?"-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"I dream with my eyes open."-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow."-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
6. Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir
By: Ben Greenman , George Clinton
4.21
Format: 256 pages, ebook
The long-awaited memoir from one of the greatest bandleaders, hit makers, and most influential pop … read more
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7. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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8. Stormy Weather
By: Carl Hiaasen
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA Today Two hone… read more
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9. The Company
By: Robert Littell
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Robert Littell does for the CIA what Mario Puzo did for the Mafia Robert Littell's The Company is a… read more
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10. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
By: Bob Odenkirk
3.60
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Nob… read more
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"The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen."-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
"I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back."-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
"Cads kill me. Men who go through life making wisecracks, being overtly rude, taking advantage, being self-obsessed disasters. They're just funny to me. Because of this hobbyhorse, one of my favorite …"-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
11. You Like It Darker
By: Stephen King
4.32
Format: 502 pages, Hardcover
From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more
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12. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
By: Jonathan Karl
4.28
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump re… read more
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13. The Night House
By: Jo Nesbø
3.28
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror n… read more
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14. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more
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"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song
15. Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box, #3)
By: Stephen King
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The final book in the New York Times bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy from Stephen King and … read more
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16. 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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17. I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House
By: Stephanie Grisham
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from be… read more
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18. The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control
By: Steven Hassan
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One of America’s leading experts in cults and mind-control provides an eye-opening analysis of Trum… read more
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"Nobody will be tougher on ISIS than me. Nobody,"-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control
"At the time, casting Trump as host was seen as a huge gamble. He had been labeled a “D-lister"-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control
"In the Moonies, I was taught to suppress negative thoughts by using a technique called thought stopping. I repeated the phrase “Crush Satan"-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control
"Certitude is not evidence of truth. Nor does repetition make it true. If anything, repetition should make you suspicious. Truth always stands up to scrutiny on its merits."-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control
19. King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
By: Daniel de Visé
4.16
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
"No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spre… read more
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20. Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey
By: Peter Guralnick
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Rock & roll, jazz, R&B, hip-hop: Without question, today's most popular sounds owe an incalculable … read more
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21. Brothers
By: Alex Van Halen
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
In this intimate and open account—nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read—Alex Van H… read more
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