Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown
By: Robert Gordon
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Profiles and stories of Southern music from the acclaimed author of Respect Yourself: Stax Records …
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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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2. The Third Policeman
By: Flann O'Brien
3.97
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
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3. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
By: Steve Martin
3.88
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concer… read more
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4. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
By: Sebastian Junger
3.50
Format: 31 pages,
"Takes readers into the maelstrom and shows nature's splendid and dangerous havoc at its utmost". O… read more
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5. Wonderful Tonight
By: Penny Junor , Pattie Boyd
3.16
Format: 288 pages,
A Q&A with Pattie Boyd, Author of Wonderful Tonight Why are you writing the book now? I have been a… read more
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6. A Separate Peace
By: John Knowles
3.97
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
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7. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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8. An African in Greenland
By: James Kirkup , Al Álvarez , Tété-Michel Kpomassie , A. Alvarez
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Tete-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland--and knew th… read more
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9. Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
By: Preston Lauterbach
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron of sex and song,… read more
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10. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.70
Format: 339 pages,
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck… read more
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11. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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12. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
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13. Sound Man
By: Glyn Johns
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
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14. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill
3.69
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
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15. The All of It
By: Jeannette Haien
4.67
Format: None pages,
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16. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
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17. The Mayor of Casterbridge
By: Thomas Hardy , Keith Wilson
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
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18. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
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19. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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20. The Philosophy of Modern Song
By: Bob Dylan
3.80
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
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4.33
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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22. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.37
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
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23. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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24. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
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4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
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25. The Twilight World
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3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
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26. Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
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3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
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27. Penny: A Graphic Memoir
By: Karl Stevens
3.86
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
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3.74
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
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4.11
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4.59
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
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31. Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown
By: Robert Gordon
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Profiles and stories of Southern music from the acclaimed author of Respect Yourself: Stax Records … read more
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