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Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Voices 2024
Books That Made You Ugly Cry
NYT - Paperback Nonfiction
Books That Made You Ugly Cry
NYT - Paperback Nonfiction
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 25 cm
Description
From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller--a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy...
5) Mehsampur
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A filmmaker travels to the site of the assassination of a famous folk-singing duo who were killed in the late eighties. While interviewing associated parties -- a music manager, a drummer who survived the attack -- he also discovers his leading lady when he rescues a young woman from lecherous men. Despite their odd origins, even more concerning is what happens to the party when they arrive at the exact place the couple was killed.
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Pub. Date
2023
Description
"Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song--written by world-famous superstar Jonesy--but Jane hasn't had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents' house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. Rock bottom. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she's seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight--the other Tom Hardy,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 222 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 22 cm
Description
"Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust shares the 'important and inspiring' (Miranda Lambert) never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship between country music icons Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends--country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic and untimely death. Full of...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the dawn of heavy metal, the sun rose to the beat of Lee Kerslake's drums. This film follows Lee as he attempts to overcome his greatest obstacles. It celebrates his immortal music, but also his courageous confrontation with his own mortality. His tribe of rock icons - from bands like Uriah Heep, Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne, KISS, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath - celebrates him in his final years.
11) Jimi
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Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
317 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Description
"This comprehensive visual celebration includes ... an extensive biography of Jimi's remarkable life and career. Additionally, a trove of photographs, vintage memorabilia, and handwritten lyrics, as well as quotes by legendary musicians ... underscore Jimi's inspiring legacy and lasting influence"--Insert.
12) Bruce
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Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xi, 494 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"... a stunning biography of Bruce Springsteen describing his life and work in vivid intimate detail"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
This is the story of how four ordinary boys, growing up amid the rubble of postwar England, found music to be a powerful, even life-saving, force. This is the story of the four fabulous friends who became the bestselling band in history.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
388 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"An acclaimed rock and roll journalist evokes the legacy of The Rolling Stones--iconic, granitic, commercially unstoppable as a collective; and fascinating, contradictory, and occasionally disturbing as individuals. As Lesley-Ann Jones writes, the Rolling Stones are 'still roaming the globe like rusty tanks without a war to go to. Jumping, jacking, flashing, posturing, these septuagenarian caricatures with faces that might have been microwaved but...
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb find early fame in the 1960s and go on to write over 1,000 songs, including 20 No. 1 hits. This film follows the group's meteoric rise as they navigate the complexities of working so intimately alongside family.
17) Heart-shaped box
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The remarkable debut novel by a new master of dark fantasy...Heart-Shaped Box Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals...a used hangman's noose...a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is widely known. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet. I will "sell" my stepfather's ghost to...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" (New Yorker), Rickie Lee Jones. Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now- iconic performance on Saturday...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm.
Description
"Canadian guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson is known mainly for his central role in the musical group the Band. But how did he become one of Rolling Stone's top 100 guitarists of all time? Written by his son Sebastian, this is the story of a rock-and-roll legend's journey through music, beginning when he was taught to play guitar at nine years old on a Native American reservation"--Amazon.com.
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