Review imprint: 1779 books
Zhiqing
Stories From China's Special Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Zhiqing: Stories from China’s Special Generation presents the recollections of fourteen men and women who were “sent down” to the countryside during China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). Teenagers or young adults at the time, the authors left school to heed Mao’s call...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The Digital Edition LARB Quarterly Journal epub is a selection of feature articles, poetry and shorts from the Los Angeles Review of Books's Quarterly Journal, curated by Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz.
The Plankton Collector
A Novella
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
A family already struggling is ung headlong apart from each other in grief....
In this atmospheric novella, the mysterious Plankton Collector visits members of a family torn apart by grief and regret. He comes in di erent guises. For ten-year old Mary, he is Mr Smith who takes her on a train...
Creative Capital
Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Venture capitalists are the handmaidens of innovation. Operating in the background, they provide the fuel needed to get fledgling companies off the ground--and the advice and guidance that helps growing companies survive their adolescence.
In Creative Capital, Spencer Ante tells the compelling...
by Jordan Raphael, Tom Spurgeon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Based on interviews with Stan Lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extensive archival research, this book provides a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration of the face of Marvel Comics. Recognized as a dazzling writer, a skilled editor, a relentless...
Building Atlanta
How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J. Russell built a shoeshine business when he was 12 years old—and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while he was still a teen. In the ensuing 50 years, Russell has continued to build and develop businesses,...
Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre
A Biography of the Doors
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
From one of rock's greatest writers, Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre is the definitive biography of the Doors Spanning the entire history of the band, from the birth of its members to the deaths of those who have departed, this book will long remain the definitive history of a band that changed the history...
Storms
My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A consummate insider as the girlfriend of Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist, Carol Ann Harris leads fans into the very heart of the band’s storms between 1976 and 1984. From interactions between the band and other stars-Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Dennis Wilson-to the chaotic...
The Lost Supreme
The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history-the Supremes-told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the surprising identity of the man by whom she was raped...
Love Him Madly
An Intimate Memoir of Jim Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Chronicling a young woman’s four-year relationship with the lead singer of the Doors, this intensely intimate memoir provides a direct and unprecedented view of the late-1960s Los Angeles subculture. When Judy Huddleston's parents got divorced, she spent her last year of high school attending concerts....
Buck Owens
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Retracing the life of Buck Owens-from his poverty-stricken youth as the son of a sharecropper to one of the nation’s best-loved and wealthiest entertainers-this biography pays tribute to the man and his music by revealing his genius, his warmth, his humor, his vulnerabilities, and his flaws. It...
Mary Wells
The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Complete with never-before-revealed details about the sex, violence, and drugs in her life, this biography reveals the incredibly turbulent life of Motown artist Mary Wells. Based in part on four hours of previously unreleased and unpublicized deathbed interviews with Wells, this account delves deeply...
I'd Rather Be the Devil
Skip James and the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Providing a clear look into the life of one of the greatest Mississippi bluesmen, this is the first biography of the late Skip James, perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. His 1931 performances of "Devil Got My Woman," "I'm So Glad," and "22-20...
That Old Black Magic
Louis Prima, Keely Smith, and the Golden Age of Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Both a love story and a tribute to the entertainment mecca, this exploration shines a spotlight on one of the hottest acts in Las Vegas in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The illuminating depiction showcases the unlikely duo-a grizzled, veteran trumpeter and vocalist molded by Louis Armstrong and...