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El Narco
Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States.
"Essential reading."-Steve Coll, The New Yorker
The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico....
by Rebecca Wallwork
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Hangin' Tough, the second album by the New Kids on the Block, has sold more than seventeen million copies worldwide since it was released in 1988. But the album and the band have also been dismissed, derided and deemed uncool by the music establishment.
Almost thirty years later, the New Kids...
The Crooked Maid
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of denazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble.
Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier upon discovering her husband's infidelity. She has come back to find him...
Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation
Grantchester Mysteries 5
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Grantchester Mysteries 5
The eagerly anticipated fifth installment in the Grantchester mystery series, now a major PBS television series.
It's the summer of love in late 1960s. The Apollo 11 astronauts are preparing to land on the moon, the war in Biafra dominates the news and Basil...
How to Write About Music
Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-leading Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, you'd do best to hone your chops and avoid clichés (like the one that begins this sentence) by learning from the prime movers. How to Write About Music offers a selection of the best writers on what is perhaps our most universally beloved...
by Emily J. Lordi
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In January of 1979, the great soul artist Donny Hathaway fell fifteen stories from a window of Manhattan's Essex House Hotel in an alleged suicide. He was 33 years old and everyone he worked with called him a genius. Best known for "A Song for You,†? "This Christmas,†? and classic duets...
S Street Rising
Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
During the height of the crack epidemic that decimated the streets of D.C., Ruben Castaneda covered the crime beat for the Washington Post. The first in his family to graduate from college, he had landed a job at one of the country's premier newspapers. But his apparent success masked a devastating...
50 Licks
Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Behold the Rolling Stones: run-ins with the law, chart-topping successes, and now the World's Greatest Continually Operating Rock and Roll Band. 50 Licks tells the story of the Stones, right from its very origins.
On July 12, 1962, London's Marquee Club debuted a new act, a blues-inflected...
The Organic Globalizer
Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The Organic Globalizer is a collection of critical essays which takes the position that hip-hop holds political significance through an understanding of its ability to at once raise cultural awareness, expand civil society's focus on social and economic justice through institution building, and engage...
by Pete Astor
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970s wearing a T-shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of determined nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering into the pre-punk UK. Pete Astor, an archly nihilistic...
by Kirk Walker Graves
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer through the ranks of Jay Z's Roc-A-Fella records, by the time he released My Beautiful Dark Twisted...
by Paula Mejia
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Jesus and Mary Chain's swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and through the pop charts, shifting the role of noise within pop music forever. Post-punk and pro-confusion, Psychocandy became the sound of a generation poised on the brink of revolution, establishing Creation Records...
by Alex Niven
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective...
by Walter Holland
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Twenty years after its release, Phish's double-CD collection A Live One has something rare and precious going for it: it still doesn't sound like anybody else. Oversized, perverse, requiring an unusual amount of listener background knowledge? Yes to all. Yet the collective improvisations it captures,...