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by Karim Nasser
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
"My passions in life were both my family and my career as a professor and researcher at the University [of Saskatchewan] and I write about both in this book. My approach with both family and students was to 'teach your son and daughter how to fish, and you will help feed them for a lifetime,' This...
The Dirt
Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE STARRING MACHINE GUN KELLY, DANIEL WEBBER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, AND IWAN RHEON, DIRECTED BY JEFF TREMAINE.
Celebrate thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors' edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography...
Sex, Death, and Minuets
Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
At one time a star in her own right as a singer, Anna Magdalena (1701–60) would go on to become, through her marriage to the older Johann Sebastian Bach, history’s most famous musical wife and mother. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live on, beloved by millions of pianists...
by Sebastian Bach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight discovered the gift that would change his life. Throughout his career, Sebastian Bach has sold over twenty million records both as...
Living Like a Runaway
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
“Heavy metal’s leading female rocker (Rolling Stone) bares all, opening up about the Runaways, the glory days of the punk and hard-rock scenes, and the highs and lows of her trailblazing career
Wielding her signature black guitar, Lita Ford shredded stereotypes of female musicians throughout...
by Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The New York Times bestselling memoir from the legendary Gucci Mane spares no detail in this “cautionary tale that ends in triumph” (GQ).
For the first time Gucci Mane tells his extraordinary story in his own words. It is “as wild, unpredictable, and fascinating as the man himself”...
Walk to Beautiful
The Power of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
* NEW YORK TIME BEST SELLER*
Imagine yourself a thirteen-year-old hundreds of miles away from home, in a strange city, and your mom leaves you at a bus station parking lot and drives off into the night with her lover.
That’s the real life story of country music star Jimmy Wayne. It’s...
Reckless Daughter
A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
"She was like a storm." —Leonard Cohen
Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar...
Mercury
An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Revealing and intimate, based on more than 100 interviews with key figures in his life, this is the definitive biography of Queen front man Freddie Mercury, one of pop music’s best-loved and most complex figures.
A revealing, intimate look at the man who would be Queen.
As lead vocalist...
by John White
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The life and times of Billie Holiday.
Boys Keep Swinging
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
In this “exhilarating yet poignant account of one boy taking flight” (Shelf Awareness, starred review), one of rock music's most entrancing figures transforms the vividness of his musical world into an unforgettable literary account of overcoming the odds and finding his true voice.
Long...
The Jazz of Physics
The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane
More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming...
Shining Star
Braving the Elements of Earth, Wind & Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Earth, Wind & Fire has sold some ninety million records and won eight Grammy awards. But while its charismatic founder, Maurice White, and Philip Bailey, one of popular music’s greatest voices, are remarkable musical talents, their relentless work ethic exhausted and emotionally gutted the group....
Mosaic
Pieces of My Life So Far
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
One of America’s most popular music artists shares beautiful pieces of an unforgettable human mosaic, revealing pieces of a life in progress.
With her unmistakable voice and honest lyrics, Amy Grant has captured a unique place in American music. As the bestselling Christian music artist of...