The History of Gangster Rap: From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form
By: Soren Baker
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Journalist Soren Baker’s The History of Gangster Rap takes a deep dive into this fascinating music …
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1. Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye
By: David Ritz
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Drawing from interviews conducted before Marvin Gaye's death, acclaimed music writer David Ritz has… read more
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"It was Frankie Lymon all over again," Marvin said. "Only this kid had mastered James Brown's moves. Michael was like Stevie. From the very beginning, he worried me."-David Ritz, Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye
"His moods changed minute to minute, and Jan could change him quicker than anyone. The more he loved her the more mixed up he got. He was such a beautiful man, but so unstable."-David Ritz, Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye
2. The Outcry (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Henry James , Jean Strouse
3.18
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
The Outcry, Henry James's final novel, is an effervescent comedy of money and manners. Breckenridge… read more
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3. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
By: Tommy Lee , Neil Strauss , Vince Neil , Nikki Sixx , None
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death… read more
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4. Casino
By: Nicholas Pileggi
4.09
Format: 148 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From the author of the best-selling Mafia expose, Wiseguy, comes this inside story of the billion-d… read more
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5. Poesía completa
By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu
2.74
Format: None pages,
Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more
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6. LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal
By: Randall Sullivan
4.40
Format: None pages,
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- music
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7. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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8. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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9. Hip Hop Raised Me
By: None , None
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Hip Hop Raised Meis the definitive volume on the essence, experience, and energy that is hip hop, a… read more
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10. Twelve Years a Slave
By: Solomon Northup
3.58
Format: None pages, ebook
A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starrin… read more
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11. Almost Transparent Blue
By: Ryū Murakami , Nancy Andrew
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American… read more
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12. Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
By: Jake Adelstein
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Poli… read more
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13. Music Is History
By: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestseller, Music Is History combines multi-Grammy Award winner Questlove’s deep m… read more
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14. Heat 2
By: Michael Mann
4.26
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more
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15. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
16. The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop
By: Jonathan Abrams
4.21
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reig… read more
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17. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
By: Dan Ozzi
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more
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18. Joyful Recollections of Trauma
By: Paul Scheer
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more
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"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
19. It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him
By: Justin Tinsley
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Culture journalist Justin Tinsley’s It Was All a Dream is “a deeply reported saga of the ephemeral,… read more
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20. DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution (American Music Series)
By: Lance Scott Walker
4.30
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare r… read more
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21. The History of Gangster Rap: From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form
By: Soren Baker
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Journalist Soren Baker’s The History of Gangster Rap takes a deep dive into this fascinating music … read more
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