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The Real Frank Zappa Book (Picador Books)

The Real Frank Zappa Book (Picador Books)

by Frank Zappa

The brash and outrageously funny autobiography of music legend Frank Zappa--now in trade paperback. Here is the real story of how he became the state of the art in weirdness, as only he can tell it: wild rock 'n' roll road stories, confrontations with bureaucratic idiocy, and more. Black-and-white photographs and line drawings throughout.

The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

by Erma Bombeck

Maus: A Survivor's Tale and Here My Troubles Began, Vol. 2Art Spiegleman

Maus: A Survivor's Tale and Here My Troubles Began, Vol. 2

by Art Spiegleman

6 1/4" X 9" Paperback

The Diary of Anne Frank: The Play (Dramascripts)

The Diary of Anne Frank: The Play (Dramascripts)

by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Anne Frank

There are 10 reading parts.

Mary Lou Retton: World Gymnastics Champion

Mary Lou Retton: World Gymnastics Champion

Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History

by Fawn M. Brodie

Diane Arbus : A Biography

by Patricia Bosworth

Diane Arbus—now the subject of a national retrospective and a forthcoming movie—was the archetypal artist living on the edge. Diane Arbus's unsettling photographs of dwarves and twins, transvestites and giants, both polarized and inspired, and her work had already become legendary when she committed suicide in 1971. This groundbreaking biography examines the private life behind Arbus's controversial art. The... (more)

Malcolm X : A Fire Burning Brightly

by Walter Dean Myers

"I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being, neither white, black, brown, nor red." This was just one of the messages that Malcolm X brought to people of color. He lived by the idea that black people should demand equality by taking their lives and futures into their own hands. With guidance from the religious leader Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm became one of the most powerful leaders of the... (more)

The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

by Zlata Filipovic

Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students. As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the... (more)

Dispatches

by Michael Herr

"The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." - John Le Carre. "Having read "Dispatches", it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war and death" - William S Burroughs. "Splendid ...he brings alive the terror of combat in a way that rivals All Quiet on... (more)

Songbook

by Nick Hornby

"All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do" -Nick Hornby What interests Nick Hornby? Songs, songwriters, everything, compulsively, passionately. Here is his ultimate list of 31 all-time favorite songs. And here are his smart, funny, and very personal... (more)

The Beatles: The Authorized BiographyHunter Davies

The Beatles: The Authorized Biography

by Hunter Davies

Frommer's Nashville & Memphis (Frommer's Complete)

Frommer's Nashville & Memphis (Frommer's Complete)

by Linda Romine

With Frommer's in hand, you'll discover the highlights of two major capitals of American music: Nashville, country music's mecca, and Memphis, the city that gave birth to the blues. We'll take you to the hottest shows, and to sizzling nightclubs where you can two-step, hear the old masters play, or discover up-and-coming new talent. From the Grand Ol' Opry to the hallowed halls of Graceland, you'll walk in the... (more)

Leonardo: The Artist and the Man

by Serge Bramly

First published in France, Serge Bramly's acclaimed biography reveals Leonardo to be as complicated, seductive, and profoundly sympathetic as the figures he painted. Bramly spent five years gathering evidence to reconstruct the artist's life--from his early years as an illegitimate child to his death in the arms of the King of France. Four pages of color photographs; 75 B&W photos.

The Basketball Diaries

by Jim Carroll

The original classic story about growing up with drugs and sex and about learning to survive on the streets of New York--once again in print. An urban classic of coming of age.

A Cellarful of Noise (Rhino Rediscovery)

A Cellarful of Noise (Rhino Rediscovery)

by Brian Epstein, Martin Lewis

The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook and Financial Planner

The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook and Financial Planner

by Jill Conner Browne

They’re wild, beloved, and all-around fabulous, but with the Sweet Potato Queens, there’re just never enough good times—or enough good eats. Well, now all fabulous women everywhere can have their own mountains of royal fun and food, because bestselling author and Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne is revealing her big-ass top secret recipes—and the events that inspired them—in The Sweet Potato Queens’ Big-Ass Cookbook... (more)

Chuck Close Up Close

by Jan Greenberg

"When every kid on the block wanted to become a policeman or fireman, I wanted to be an artist. It was the first thing that I was good at, the first thing that really made me special. I had skills the other kids didn't have. Art saved my life." These are the words of Chuck Close, one of America's most celebrated artists and the subject of this inspiring and thought-provoking book. Through interviews conducted... (more)

Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe

by Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall

Introduction by Dr. Jane Goodall. On the occasion of Dr. Jane Goodall's fortieth anniversary of groundbreaking research with the chimpanzees of Gombe, the Jane Goodall Institute has joined Stewart, Tabori & Chang in paying homage to the woman hailed by the Christian Science Monitor as "a heroine, in a hero-less time." In the words of Stephen Jay Gould, "Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees represents one... (more)

For Us, the Living (Banner Books)

by Myrlie Evers-Williams

An extraordinary woman tells a moving story of her courtship and marriage to heroic civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Myrlie Evers describes her husband's devotion to the quest for achieving civil rights for black Mississippians and his ultimate sacrifce on that hot summer night in 1963.

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