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4) Life
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards lived the original rock and roll life. He tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane; his listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones' first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to...
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"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
335 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this book is a collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared history. Through the realms of art, myth, geology, philosophy, and power, the author tells the story of humanity through the minerals and materials that have allowed humans to evolve and create. Lapidarium uses the stories of these sixty stones to explore how human culture has formed stone, and the...
10) Stick and Stone
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Series
Description
Stick and Stone are both lonely until Pinecone's teasing causes one to stick up for the other, and a solid friendship is formed.
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
210 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Description
Michael Holzman's Stone Work demonstrates not only that the application of stone can still result in architecture unlike that created from other materials, but also that it can be of more interest today than it has been in the recent past.
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For the first time, the complete story of the enigmatic founder of the Rolling Stones and the early years of the band. Brian Jones was the golden boy of the Rolling Stones, the visionary who gave the band its name and its sound. Yet he was a haunted man, and much of his brief time with the band, before his death in 1969 at the infamous age of twenty-seven, was volatile and tragic. Some of the details of how Jones was dethroned are well known, but...
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
208 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
Concrete, granite, marble, travertine and various other strains of natural and engineeredengineered stone are shown and described in this comprehensive new book, which presents homeowners with the clearest and most creative ways to embellish their own decorating scheme.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 89
Description
The Aldens take part in a hunt at a gem mine and discover that someone is out to sabotage the contest.
17) Wicked charms
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"Lizzy and Diesel are back in an all-new wicked adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich and Emmy Award-winning co-author Phoef Sutton. Murdered and mummified nearly a century ago, notorious bootlegger Collier 'Peg Leg' Dazzle discovered and re-hid a famous pirate's treasure somewhere along the coast of New England. A vast collection of gold and silver coins and precious gems, the bounty also contains the Stone of Avarice--the...
18) Stone reader
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1972 Mark Moskowitz read a New York Times book review of "The stones of summer" by Dow Mossman, a title which, later in Moskowitz's life would later become an object of obsession. Though he shelved the book for 25 years, Moskowitz finally read it and was amazed at its ingenuity. He was shocked that its one-time author never penned another book. Determined to solve the mystery, Moskowitz documented his research project in finding the forgotten...
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Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
127 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 23 cm.
Description
"A stunning introduction to the mysterious stone figures of the North, featuring 90 of Norman Hallendy's rare and haunting photographs." "All across the vast and windswept polar regions of the North, from Alaska to Greenland and beyond, stone figures have been placed upon the landscape in mysterious and awesome configurations. The Inuit have been building such structures in the Arctic for centuries for a myriad of reasons. The objects most familiar...
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