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1,"2017-04-27 07:08:40","M Train",,"Patti Smith",9781101875100,1101875100,Hardcover,10/06/2015,"Knopf Publishing Group",,,253,8.25,5.50,.75,,Yes,,,,,"Biography - General",,
2,"2017-04-02 18:26:46","Just Kids","Awards2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction 2010 Powell's Staff Top 5s Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsIt was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous — the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. Review""Reading rocker Smith's account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it's hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter that threw them together, allowing both to blossom? Quirky and spellbinding."" People, Top 10 Books of 2010 Review""The most enchantingly evocative memoir of funky-but-chic New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s that any alumnus has yet committed to print."" Janet Maslin's top 10 books of 2010, New York Times Review""Smith's beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe's life and work."" Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of the Year Review""[Just Kids] offers a revealing account of the fears and insecurities harbored by even the most incendiary artists, as well as their capacity for reverence and tenderness."" USA TodayReview""Smith's writing about her early days with Mapplethorpe is fervid and incantatory but never falls into incoherence."" The OregonianSynopsisSmith's evocative, honest, and moving coming-of-age story reveals her extraordinary relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Part romance, part elegy, Just Kids is about friendship in the truest sense, and the artist's calling. SynopsisIn Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work — from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.About the AuthorPatti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary mergence of poetry and rock. Her seminal album Horses, bearing Robert Mapplethorpes renowned photograph, has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. Her books include Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the prestigious title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor awarded to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Smith married the late Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. They had a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jesse. Smith resides in New York City.","Patti Smith",9780060936228,0060936223,"Trade Paperback",11/02/2010,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",,,288,.90IN,5.50IN,1.00,1,Yes,4294967295,,,B,"Biography-Composers and Musicians|Personal Memoirs",,
3,"2017-04-08 15:25:00","Short Nights of the Shadow...",,"Timothy Egan",9780544102767,0544102762,"Trade Paperback",08/06/2013,"Mariner Books",,,370,1.10IN,5.20IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Edward (PHT) Curtis",,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
4,"2017-04-02 18:30:20","Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher The Epic Life & Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis","Awards2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsHow a lone mans epic obsession led to one of Americas greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history — and the driven, brilliant man who made them. Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continents original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.An Indiana Jones with a camera, Curtis spent the next three decades traveling from the Havasupai at the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the Acoma on a high mesa in New Mexico to the Salish in the rugged Northwest rain forest, documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. It took tremendous perseverance — ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. Eventually Curtis took more than 40,000 photographs, preserved 10,000 audio recordings, and is credited with making the first narrative documentary film. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created the most definitive archive of the American Indian.His most powerful backer was Theodore Roosevelt, and his patron was J. P. Morgan. Despite the friends in high places, he was always broke and often disparaged as an upstart in pursuit of an impossible dream. He completed his masterwork in 1930, when he published the last of the twenty volumes. A nation in the grips of the Depression ignored it. But today rare Curtis photogravures bring high prices at auction, and he is hailed as a visionary. In the end he fulfilled his promise: He made the Indians live forever.Review""Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Egan (The Worst Hard Time) turns his attention to one of Seattle's most remarkable — yet all but forgotten — residents. In the late 19th century, Edward Curtis was the era's reigning portrait photographer, so well respected that President Theodore Roosevelt chose him to photograph his daughter's wedding. Yet in 1900, at the height of his fame, Curtis gave it up to pursue what would become his life's work — 'a plan to photograph all the intact Native American tribes left in North America' before their ways of life disappeared. This idea received the backing of J.P. Morgan and culminated in a critically acclaimed 20-volume set, The North American Indian, which took Curtis 30 years to complete and left him divorced and destitute. Unfailingly sympathetic to his subject, Egan shadows Curtis as he travels from Roosevelt's summer home at Sagamore Hill to the mesas and canyons of the Southwest tribes and to the rain forests of the Coastal Indians and the isolated tundra on Nunivak Island. Egan portrays the dwindling tribes, their sacred rites (such as the Hopi snake dance), customs, and daily lives, and captures a larger-than-life cast. With a reporter's eye for detail, Egan delivers a gracefully written biography and adventure story. Agent: Carol Mann, Carol Mann Agency."" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.Review""In this hauntingly beautiful book, Egan brings Curtis to life as vividly and with as much depth, heart and understanding as Curtis himself put into his timeless portraits. This is a story for the ages."" Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic Review""Short Nights is not only the marvelous and rollicking account of life of one of America's extraordinary photographers. It is also a book about the extreme personal cost of outsized ambition. Edward Curtis undertook one of the most epic cultural projects in American history — photographing and documenting the vanishing ways of life of some eighty American Indian tribes. It cost him almost everything he once was. And still he persisted, turning out some of the greatest photographic and ethnological work ever done. Egan has found yet another great subject, and has crafted yet another great narrative around it."" S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer MoonReview""Edward Curtis's hauntingly beautiful photographs have graced gallery walls and coffee tables for generationsReview""Ace popular historian Egan makes Curtis' story frequently suspenseful, always gripping, and monumentally heroic."" Booklist, starred review Review""[Short Nights] mesmerizes — it's instructive, entertaining and a joy to read....When it comes to superlative historical writing, this is as good as it gets....Dazzling."" Shelf AwarenessReview""A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea....Egan's spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life."" Washington Post Review""A darn good yarn. Egan is a muscular storyteller and his book is a rollicking page-turner with a colorfully drawn hero."" San Francisco ChronicleReview""An astonishing story, worth knowing and well told."" Cleveland Plain DealerReview""Egan fills his chronicle with bright turns of phrase and radiant descriptions, making both places and people come alive....A sweeping tale about two vanishing ways of life."" Wall Street Journal Review""Egan writes this fascinating biography with a compelling and occasionally creative narrative that challenges the age-old ratio of a picture's worth to a thousand words. Egan somehow makes both more valuable."" USA Today Review""[Egan] artfully frames a stunning portrait of Edward Curtis that captures every patina of his glory, brilliance, and pathos. [Egan] writes with passion and grace."" Christian Science Monitor Review""The author gracefully transforms the past into vivid scenes that employ all five senses."" Star TribuneReview""Egan brings liveliness and a wealth of detail to his biography of the legendary American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis...a riveting biography of an American original."" Boston Globe Review""Insightful and entertaining...Egan's excellent book stands as a fitting tribute to an American original who fought for a people with his camera and his art."" Los Angeles TimesReview""[A] captivating tribute to a treasured American and the treasures he created."" Dallas Morning NewsReview""Lucent prose illuminates a man obscured for years in history's shadows."" Kirkus, starred review SynopsisThe story of Edward Curtis, a charming rogue with a grade school education who became the Annie Leibovitz of his time, and the creation of his masterwork, a photographic record of the entire North American Indian nation — a project that cost him his celebrity, his prosperity, and ultimately his life, but transformed Native history for the modern era when it was rediscovered in a Boston basement in the 1970s.SynopsisEdward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer — the Annie Leibovitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egans book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan, it took tremendous perseverance — six years alone to convince the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony. The undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. He would die penniless and unknown in Hollywood just a few years after publishing the last of his twenty volumes. But the charming rogue with the grade-school education had fulfilled his promise — his great adventure succeeded in creating one of America's most stunning cultural achievements.SynopsisHow a lone mans epic obsession led to one of Americas greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.About the AuthorTimothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and the author of six books, most recently The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Washington State Book Award. His previous books include The Worst Hard Time, which won a National Book Award and was named a New York Times Editors Choice. He is an online op-ed columnist for the New York Times, writing his ""Opinionator"" feature once a week. He is a third-generation Westerner and lives in Seattle. Table of ContentsFirst Picture 1Encounter on a Volcano 23The Big Idea 41Indian Napoleon 61With the President 81In the Den of the Titan 105Anglos in Indian Country 121The Artist and His Audience 137The Custer Conundrum 159The Most Remarkable Man 179On the River of the West 193New Art Forms 207Moving Pictures 229Lost Days 245Second Wind 259The Longest Days 279Fight to the Finish 291Twilight 301Epilogue: Revival 317Acknowledgments 327Sources 331Photo Credits 351Index 353","Timothy Egan",9780618969029,0618969020,Hardcover,10/01/2012,"HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT",,,384,"9 in.","6 in.",,,,,,,,"US History-General|Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
5,"2017-04-05 17:40:41","The Lonely City: Adventures in...",,"Olivia Laing",9781250039576,1250039576,Hardcover,03/01/2016,"Picador USA",,,336,1.10IN,5.80IN,,,Yes,,,,B,,,
6,"2017-04-02 18:30:32","Hold Still A Memoir with Photographs","Awards2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionStaff PickThis breathtaking memoir, marrying Sally Mann's powerful photography with a personal story so captivating that it rivals great works of fiction, reveals how one's art can become thoroughly intertwined with one's life. Read this book: it's a truly powerful work of art in its own right. Recommended By Renee P., Powells.com Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsA revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: ""deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land... racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder."" In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.Review""In Hold Still, Sally Mann demonstrates a talent for storytelling that rivals her talent for photography. The book is riveting, ravishing — diving deep into family history to find the origins of art. I couldn't take my eyes off of it."" Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and This is the Story of a Happy MarriageReview""Sally Mann's Hold Still is just like her pictures: forthright, adventurous, loving, fearless, beautiful, intimate, and somehow uncanny. That means it's probably just like her."" Luc Sante, author of Low Life and Kill All Your DarlingsReview""What I admire most about Sally Mann's new book is not her ability to write captivating sentences — she does. It's the honesty and fearlessness, the two mixed together, compelling her to own up to her mistakes, to acknowledge her winnings, to accept her losses (and those of her family). For this quality alone, Hold Still deserves a fixed place in the library of American memoir."" Paul Hendrickson, author of Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and LostReview""There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of creativity. It is sublime. It's also very funny. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art itself."" Melissa Holbrook Pierson, author of The Place You Love is GoneReview""This spectacular modern memoir reads like a sweeping gothic novel, filled with mystery, violence, controversy, and, of course, love in all its forms. It is a literary family album enlivened by many of the images in the stories told. A Southern work, it is also universally accessible, as all of Sally Mann's work is, for she reaches deep into her ancestral headwaters and the twisted rivers of human remembrance. A triumph."" Jamie Lee Curtis, actressReview""Few photographers of any time or place have matched Sally Mann's steadiness of simple eyesight, her serene technical brilliance, and the clearly communicated eloquence she derives from her subjects, human and otherwise — subjects observed with an ardor that is all but indistinguishable from love."" Reynolds Price, TimeReview""Hold Still is a wild ride of a memoir. Visceral and visionary. Fiercely beautiful. My kind of true adventure."" Patti Smith, musician and National Book Award-winning author of Just KidsReview""One would not need to know Sally Mann's remarkable work as a photographer to be swept up in her memoir Hold Still, which draws upon a family history so rife with jaw-dropping drama that it could provide the grist for a dozen novels. With prodigious intellect and a telling instinct for the exact detail that will reveal character or throw it into question, Mann delves into the treacherous territory of memory, mesmerized by the relentless dance of beauty and decay. In doing so, she manifests in prose the acuity of seeing that has propelled her to the top rank of contemporary artists."" Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree and The Noonday DemonReview""For three decades Sally Mann has captured images that are unique, haunting, beautiful, disturbing, stark — it would take a mid-sized thesaurus to hold all the adjectives that have been used to describe both the art and the artist. In Hold Still, she wraps her prose around her pictures, revealing a fine talent for writing and a rich family history."" John Grisham, author of The Firm and Sycamore RowReview""Photographer Sally Mann's book Hold Still is one of the great portraits of the American South. Written in her pitch perfect prose style, it is a textbook of illumination and desire for anyone who hears the siren call of art beckoning to them. It's southern to the bone, hell on wheels. Hold Still is a masterpiece."" Pat Conroy, author of The Death of Santini and South of BroadVideoAbout the AuthorSally Mann (born in Lexington, Virginia, 1951) is one of America's most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by major institutions internationally. Her many books include What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), and the Aperture titles At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994), Proud Flesh (2009), and The Flesh and the Spirit (2010). A feature film about her work, What Remains, debuted to critical acclaim in 2006. Mann is represented by Gagosian Gallery, New York. She lives in Virginia.","Sally Mann",9780316247764,0316247766,Hardcover,05/12/2015,"LITTLE BROWN & CO",,,496,1.60IN,6.30IN,1.50,,Yes,,"Sally Mann",,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
7,"2017-04-02 18:30:39",Banksy,,"Will Ellsworth-Jones",9781781310342,1781310343,"Trade Paperback",01/01/0001,"Aurum Press Ltd",,,,,,,,,9781781310342,,,,,,
8,"2017-04-15 13:12:58","Hare With Amber Eyes",,"Edmund De Waal",9780312569372,0312569378,"Trade Paperback",08/02/2011,"Picador USA",,,354,1.20IN,5.40IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Edmund de",,B,"Biography - General|Biography-Rich and Famous",,
9,"2017-04-26 14:10:04","A Northern Christmas: Poems",,"Kent, Rockwell",9780819563620,0819563625,Hardcover,11/20/1998,Wesleyan,,English,40,.36IN,4.86IN,".36 in.",1,Yes,2800819563622,"Rockwell Kent",,B,"Nature Studies-General|Christmas -- Alaska -- Renard Island.|Renard Island|Artists|Christmas",,
10,"2017-03-23 03:58:20","One Woman: Sketches / Diaries /...",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
11,"2017-04-02 18:31:11","Christian Dior: The Biography","Synopses & ReviewsSynopsisThe lavishly illustrated, sparkling portrait of the pioneering arbiter of style, the creator of the New Look, with an introduction by John Galliano Christian Dior, the legendary French fashion designer, caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris still groping to recover from the devastations of wartime occupation. Reintroducing the flowing, ankle-length skirt, Dior gave women back their long-lost sense of freedom, femininity, and joie de vivre. Dior's collection with its pinched waste and generous folds of fabric, was dubbed the New Look by the press, especially the American fashion journalists. Dior was crowned The King of Fashion, and he immediately reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world. With elegance, precision, and impeccable research, Marie- France Pochna recreates this one-of-a-kind world of glamour and luxury and situates Dior's fairy-tale career in the rich tapestry of Paris cultural life.","Marie-France Pochna",9781590200827,1590200829,"Trade Paperback",07/28/2009,"Overlook Press",,English,320,.90IN,7.30IN,.75,1,Yes,9781590200827,"John Galliano",,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
12,"2017-04-02 18:31:24","26 Songs in 30 Days Woody Guthries Columbia River Songs & the Planned Promise Land in the Pacific Northwest","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsIn 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days—including classics like “Roll On Columbia” and “Pastures of Plenty”—when he was hired by the Bonneville Power Administration to promote the benefits of cheap hydroelectric power, irrigation, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Timed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of this project, KEXP DJ Greg Vandy takes readers inside the unusual partnership between one of America’s great folk artists and the federal government, and shows how the American folk revival was a response to hard times. 26 Songs In 30 Days plunges deeply into the historical context of the time and the progressive politics that embraced Social Democracy during an era in which the United States had been severely suffering from The Great Depression. And though this is a musical history of a vibrant American musical icon and a specific part of the country, it couldn’t be a better reminder of how timeless and expansive such topics are in today’s political discourse. Review""26 Songs in 30 Days is a valuable addition to the Woody Guthrie library, not to mention a great read. Greg Vandy’s love of the topic reveals itself on every page. The story he tells provides insight and clarity about a period in the life of Guthrie that hasn’t gotten its due—until now."" Robert Santelli, author of This Land Is Your Land: Woody Guthrie and the Journey of an American Folk SongReview""I can’t get enough of Woody Guthrie, and Greg Vandy reveals him afresh in the context of a project that piques the best in Woody, and maybe the best in America. Read, learn, enjoy—and sing."" Robert Gordon, author of Respect YourselfSynopsisIn 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days--including classics like ""Roll On Columbia"" and ""Pastures of Plenty""--when he was hired by the Bonneville Power Administration to promote the benefits of cheap hydroelectric power, irrigation, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Timed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of this project, KEXP DJ Greg Vandy takes readers inside the unusual partnership between one of America's great folk artists and the federal government, and shows how the American folk revival was a response to hard times. 26 Songs In 30 Days plunges deeply into the historical context of the time and the progressive politics that embraced Social Democracy during an era in which the United States had been severely suffering from The Great Depression. And though this is a musical history of a vibrant American musical icon and a specific part of the country, it couldn't be a better reminder of how timeless and expansive such topics are in today's political discourse.About the AuthorSince 2000, Greg Vandy has been the host of The Roadhouse on Seattle’s KEXP radio where he brings a world of folk, blues, and roots-inspired music to listeners in the Pacific Northwest and around the world.","Greg Vandy, Daniel Person",9781570619700,1570619700,Hardcover,04/12/2016,"Sasquatch Books",,,208,.80IN,7.50IN,,,Yes,,"Daniel Person",,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
13,"2017-05-17 10:46:06","Tattoo Machine Tall Tales True...",,"Jeff Johnson",9780385530729,0385530722,"Trade Paperback",06/08/2010,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,249,.59IN,6.62IN,.75,1,,4294967295,"Jeff Johnson",,B,"Personal Memoirs|Biography - General",,
14,"2017-04-12 08:09:27","Vanishing Velazquez A 19th...",,"Laura Cumming",9781476762159,1476762155,Hardcover,04/12/2016,"Scribner Book Company",,,304,1.00IN,6.20IN,,,Yes,,,,B,,,
15,"2017-04-02 18:31:44",Woolgathering,"Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsA great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a youngster finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, ""a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me."" She discovers--often at night, often in nature--the pleasures of rescuing ""a fleeting thought."" Deeply moving, Wool- gathering calls up our own memories, as the child ""glimpses and gleans, piecing together a crazy quilt of truths."" Smith introduces us to her tribe, ""a race of cloud dwellers,"" and to the fierce, vital pleasures of cloud watching and stargazing and wandering. A radiant new autobiographical piece, ""Two Worlds"" (which was not in the original 1992 Hanuman edition of Woolgathering), and the author's photographs and illustrations are also included. Woolgathering celebrates the sacred nature of creation with Smith's beautiful style, acclaimed as ""glorious"" (NPR), ""spellbinding"" (Booklist), ""rare and ferocious"" (Salon), and ""shockingly beautiful"" (New York Magazine).Review""'The writing of it drew me from my strange torpor and I hope that in some measure it will fill the reader with a vague and curious joy.' Poet, artist, and musician Smith, winner of the National Book Award for Just Kids, provides a new introduction for this childhood memoir (first published in 1992), describing how the book developed from a period of intense depression. Smith's concise, lyrical essays invite the reader to dwell on the text. In 'Barndance,' she describes how children grow to recognize the dichotomy between physical similarities to their families and cognitive differences. Several essays discuss her artistic goals, and in 'Two Worlds,' she writes about her dream of becoming a painter. Belonging is a frequent theme, and in 'Millet,' she writes about her connection, and lack thereof, with her grandmothers and mother. Half beautiful language and metaphors, half raw emotion, this book (which includes a handful of personal photos) will inspire and influence a new generation of logophiles as they read and reread this absorbing, meditative work. (Nov.)"" Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.Review""A poet of distinction."" The New York TimesReview""Smith is well attuned to the otherwordly dimension of dreams and cosmic visions. In this intimate and vaulting collection, she ushers us into the kingdom of childhood...Smith looks to family history for sources of her artistic impulses and portrays herself in adulthood as a roaming mystic, journal in hand, heart and mind open. Exultations of concentrated beauty and mystery ignite Smith's soulful poems about the making of an artist."" BooklistReview""Capturing moments of her adult life, Smith pares down her prose to a state of vivid impressionism, so enigmatic that even ordinary acts - preparing mint tea, nodding off while sewing - take on spiritual weight. "" The GuardianReview"" "" The GuardianSynopsisA radiant new autobiographical piece, Two Worlds (which was not in the original 1992 Hanuman edition ofWoolgathering), and the author s photographs and illustrations are also included. Woolgathering celebrates the sacred nature of creation with Smith s beautiful style, acclaimed as glorious (NPR), spellbinding (Booklist), rare and ferocious (Salon), and shockingly beautiful (New York Magazine). ""SynopsisA great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a youngster finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, ""a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me."" She discovers--often at night, often in nature--the pleasures of rescuing ""a fleeting thought."" Deeply moving, Wool- gathering calls up our own memories, as the child ""glimpses and gleans, piecing together a crazy quilt of truths."" Smith introduces us to her tribe, ""a race of cloud dwellers,"" and to the fierce, vital pleasures of cloud watching and stargazing and wandering. A radiant new autobiographical piece, ""Two Worlds"" (which was not in the original 1992 Hanuman edition of Woolgathering), and the author's photographs and illustrations are also included. Woolgathering celebrates the sacred nature of creation with Smith's beautiful style, acclaimed as ""glorious"" (NPR), ""spellbinding"" (Booklist), ""rare and ferocious"" (Salon), and ""shockingly beautiful"" (New York Magazine).SynopsisThe National Book Award-winner Patti Smith presents a treasure box of a childhood memoir about ""clear unspeakable joy"" and ""just the wish to know.""About the AuthorPatti Smith is a poet, performer, visual artist, and author of the National Book Award-winning memoir Just Kids. She has twelve albums, has had numerous gallery shows, and continues to give concerts of her music and poetry. Her books include Early Work, The Coral Sea, Witt, Babel, Auguries of Innocence, Woolgathering, Land 250, Trois, and many others. She lives in New York.","Patti Smith",9780811219440,0811219445,Hardcover,11/28/2011,"NEW DIRECTIONS",,,80,.56IN,5.19IN,.50,,Yes,,"Patti Smith",,B,"Biography-Literary|Biography - General",,
16,"2017-04-27 07:27:06","Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall",,"Will Ellsworth Jones",9781250025739,1250025737,Hardcover,02/12/2013,"St. Martin's Press",,English,322,1.11IN,5.86IN,1.25,,Yes,,"Will Ellsworth-Jones",,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
17,"2017-04-06 02:46:51","Its What I Do A Photographers...",,"Lynsey Addario",9781594205378,159420537X,Hardcover,02/05/2015,"Penguin Press",,,368,1.30IN,6.30IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Lynsey Addario",,B,"Biography - General",,
18,"2017-04-15 11:19:04","White Road A Journey Into an...",,"Edmund De Waal",9780374289263,0374289263,Hardcover,11/10/2015,"Farrar Straus Giroux",,,416,1.30IN,6.20IN,1.75,,Yes,,"Edmund De Waal",,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
19,"2017-04-27 07:24:32","Just Kids From Brooklyn to the...",,"Patti Smith",9780066211312,006621131X,Hardcover,01/01/2010,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",,English,279,1.16IN,6.22IN,1.25,1,Yes,2800066211314,"Patti Smith",,B,"Personal Memoirs|Rock musicians -- United States.|Biography-Composers and Musicians|Poets, American -- 20th century.",,
20,"2017-04-02 18:32:39","Everybody Behaves Badly The True Story Behind Hemingways Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises","Synopses & ReviewsReviewIn this revealing new study Blume shows that a series of competing internal and external pressures helped birth Hemingway’s now legendary debut roman à clef The Sun Also Rises. Blume begins by tracing Hemingway’s dogged path to becoming a published writer. By the time Hemingway and his first wife Hadley arrived in Paris in 1921 he was considered one of the most promising young American authors though he had published only a few short stories. The particulars of the Hemingways’ epic trip to Pamplona Spain with five friends in the summer of 1925—and the romantic entanglements that followed—shed light not only on Hemingway’s early career but also on other stories of the lost generation. After Hemingway refashioned their trip into a novel he focused on a publishing contract for what he firmly believed be a blockbuster sensation. In the subsequent negotiations and editing process Blume reveals F. Scott Fitzgerald played a surprisingly large role. Blume has carved a mountain of original research into a riveting tale of Hemingway’s literary romantic and publishing travails. Agent: Molly Friedrich Friedrich Agency. (June)"" Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.""SynopsisAn account of the making of Ernest Hemingwayand#39;s The Sun Also Rises, the larger-than-life people that inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary worldSynopsisThe making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world In the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, midnight betrayals, and midday hangovers into his groundbreaking novel The Sun Also Rises. This revolutionary work redefined modern literature as much as it did his peers, who would forever after be called the Lost Generation. But the full story of Hemingway's legendary rise has remained untold until now. Lesley Blume resurrects the explosive, restless landscape of 1920s Paris and Spain and reveals how Hemingway helped create his own legend. He made himself into a death-courting, bull-fighting aficionado; a hard-drinking, short-fused literary genius; and an expatriate bon vivant. Blume's vivid account reveals the inner circle of the Lost Generation as we have never seen it before, and shows how it still influences what we read and how we think about youth, sex, love, and excess. About the AuthorLESLEY M. BLUME is an award-winning journalist, reporter, and cultural historian. She contributes regularly to Vanity Fair and the Wall Street Journal, and her work has appeared in many other publications, including Vogue, Town and Country, and Departures.andnbsp;She specializes in stories on historical cultural achievements, and has documented seminal moments in the careers of Jackson Pollock, Truman Capote, and Ernest Hemingway, among other greats. Blume began her journalism career at the Jordan Times in Amman and Cronkite Productions in New York City. She later became an off-air reporter and researcher for ABC Newsand#39;s Nightline with Ted Koppel in Washington, D.C. She holds honors degrees in history from Williams College and Cambridge University. Blume now lives in New York City with her husband, also once a journalist at Nightline; their first date was a bio-chemical warfare training session just before the 2003 Iraq invasion.","Lesley Blume",9780544276000,0544276000,Hardcover,06/07/2016,"Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt",,,332,1.50IN,5.90IN,,,Yes,,,,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
21,"2017-04-08 22:19:31","Allure of Chanel",,"Paul Morand, Euan Cameron",9781908968920,1908968923,"Trade Paperback",11/12/2013,"PUSHKIN PRESS",,,208,.90IN,6.70IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Paul Morand",,B,"Biography-Rich and Famous",,
22,"2017-05-02 16:43:12","Jokes Over Bruised Memories Gonzo...",,"Ralph Steadman",9780156032506,0156032503,"Trade Paperback",10/01/2007,"HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT",,,396,.80IN,5.40IN,.75,1,Yes,2800156032508,,"Kurt Vonnegut",B,"Personal Memoirs|BIO026000|Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
23,"2017-04-27 07:30:44",Klimt,,"Gottfried Fliedl",9783822850169,3822850160,Hardcover,08/01/2006,"TASCHEN BOOKS",25th,,239,"12.10 in.","9.62 in.",".94 in.",1,,2803822850161,,,,"Art-History and Criticism",,
24,"2017-04-26 01:35:30","VW Camper Van A Biography",,"Mike Harding",9781845136055,1845136055,Hardcover,07/01/2013,"Aurum Press",,,256,"7.8 in.","5.08 in.",,,,,,,,,,
25,"2017-04-06 02:30:48","Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator...",,"Phil Knight",9781501135910,1501135910,Hardcover,04/26/2016,"Scribner Book Company",,,400,9IN,6IN,1.1IN,,,,,,B,,,
26,"2017-05-02 08:14:49",Girlboss,,"Sophia Amoruso",9781591847939,1591847931,"Trade Paperback",09/29/2015,Portfolio,,,256,.80IN,5.40IN,.75,,Yes,,,,B,Biography/Business,,
27,"2017-04-28 20:26:17","Lean in: Women, Work, and the...",,"Sandberg, Sheryl",9780385349949,0385349947,Hardcover,03/11/2013,"Knopf Publishing Group",,,228,1.20IN,6.20IN,1.00,,,,"Nell (CON) Scovell",,B,Biography/Business,,
28,"2017-04-26 01:28:31","Steve Jobs",,"Walter Isaacson",9781451648539,1451648537,Hardcover,10/24/2011,"Simon & Schuster",,,630,1.80IN,6.45IN,1.75,,Yes,,"Walter Isaacson",,B,"Biography/Business|steve jobs biography, apple, apple computers, ipod, iphone, itunes, istore, wozniak, great business books, cupertino, mona simpson, steve jobs cancer, steve jobs jerk, steve jobs genius, innovator, pixar, toy story",,
29,"2017-05-10 03:02:26","Elon Musk Tesla SpaceX & the...",,"Ashlee Vance",9780062301239,0062301233,Hardcover,05/19/2015,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",,,400,1.34IN,6.28IN,1.25,,Yes,,"Ashlee Vance",,B,"Science Reference-Inventions|Biography/Business",,
30,"2017-04-06 02:32:29","My Beloved World",,"Sonia Sotomayor",9780345804839,034580483X,"Trade Paperback",01/07/2014,"VINTAGE BOOKS",,,398,.89IN,5.18IN,.75,,Yes,,,,B,"Biography-Lawyers and Judges",,
31,"2017-04-02 18:35:31","Confessions of an Economic Hit Man","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposé of international corruption, and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the corner, questions of America's military buildup, environmental impact, and foreign policy are on everyone's mind. Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins goes behind the scenes of the current geopolitical crisis and offers bold solutions to our most pressing problems. Drawing on interviews with other EHMs, jackals, CIA operatives, reporters, businessmen, and activists, Perkins reveals the secret history of events that have created the current American Empire, including:   How the defeats in Vietnam and Iraq have benefited big business The role of Israel as Fortress America in the Middle East Tragic repercussions of the IMF's Asian Economic Collapse The current Latin American revolution and its lessons for democracy U.S. blunders in Tibet, Congo, Lebanon, and Venezuela From the U.S. military in Iraq to infrastructure development in Indonesia, from Peace Corps volunteers in Africa to jackals in Venezuela, Perkins exposes a conspiracy of corruption that has fueled instability and anti-Americanism around the globe, with consequences reflected in our daily headlines. Having raised the alarm, Perkins passionately addresses how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations.  Review""Perkins spent the 1970s working as an economic planner for an international consulting firm, a job that took him to exotic locales like Indonesia and Panama, helping wealthy corporations exploit developing nations as, he claims, a not entirely unwitting front for the National Security Agency. He says he was trained early in his career by a glamorous older woman as one of many 'economic hit men' advancing the cause of corporate hegemony. He also says he has wanted to tell his story for the last two decades, but his shadowy masters have either bought him off or threatened him until now. The story as presented is implausible to say the least, offering so few details that Perkins often seems paranoid, and the simplistic political analysis doesn't enhance his credibility. Despite the claim that his work left him wracked with guilt, the artless prose is emotionally flat and generally comes across as a personal crisis of conscience blown up to monstrous proportions, casting Perkins as a victim not only of his own neuroses over class and money but of dark forces beyond his control. His claim to have assisted the House of Saud in strengthening its ties to American power brokers may be timely enough to attract some attention, but the yarn he spins is ultimately unconvincing, except perhaps to conspiracy buffs."" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)Review""Astonishing."" Boston Herald Review""This riveting look at a world of intrigue reads like a spy novel....Highly recommended."" Library JournalReview""John Perkins was for 10 years a player in a high-stakes game of global empire. Confessions of an Economic Hit Manis his very personal account of the events that forced him to choose between conscience and a glamorous life of power, luxury and beautiful women. It is also an adventure thriller worthy of Graham Green or John Le Carré that connects the dots between corporate globalization, American Empire, and the dynasty of the House of Bush."" David C. Korten, Dragonfly ReviewReview""John Perkins has written a book that shakes one's confidence in the ethics of the prevailing economic system. We are in troubling times and need to understand realistically the price we are paying for the 'free' market we enjoy. Perkins has written an extraordinary tale."" Jim Garrison, author of America As Empire, President of the State of the World ForumReview""Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a unique book, brave because it is personal....This book possesses an immediacy that separates it from the numerous studies we already have of American Empire. It comes from the heart. I highly recommend it."" Michael Brownstein, author of World on FireReview""Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a brave and potent book written by a man whose commitment to the truth transcends any personal concerns about revealing his own previous blindness....This is a stunning and groundbreaking book that is a must-read for anyone who cares about our world."" Lynne Twist, global activist and author of The Soul of MoneySynopsisPerkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an ""economic hit man"" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.SynopsisThe runaway bestseller that has generated a major movie deal — and an international dialogue — with over 170,000 copies sold in hardcover and seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list! ""Economic hit men,"" John Perkins writes, ""are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as Empire but one that has taken on terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization."" John Perkins should know — he was an economic hit man for an international consulting firm that worked to convince developing countries to accept enormous loans and to funnel that money to U.S. corporations. Once these countries were saddled with huge debts, the American government and international aid agencies were able to request their ""pound of flesh"" in favors, including access to natural resources, military cooperation, and political support. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is the story of one man's experiences inside the intrigue, greed, corruption and little-known government and corporate activities that America has been involved in since World War II, and which have dire consequences for the future of democracy and the world. About the AuthorJohn Perkins is founder and president of the Dream Change Coalition, which works closely with Amazonian and other indigenous people to help preserve their environments and cultures. From 1971 to 1981 he worked for the international consulting firm of Chas.T. Main, where he became chief economist and director of economics and regional planning. Perkins has lectured and taught at universities and learning centers on four continents and is a regular lecturer for the Omega Center. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface ix Prologue xvi Part I 1963-1971 1 An Economic Hit Man Is Born 3 2 ""In for Life"" 12 3 Indonesia: Lessons for an EHM 20 4 Saving a Country from Communism 23 5 Selling My Soul 28 Part II 1971-1975 6 My Role as Inquisitor 37 7 Civilization on Trial 42 8 Jesus, Seen Differently 47 9 Opportunity of a Lifetime 52 10 Panama's President and Hero 58 11 Pirates in the Canal Zone 63 12 Soldiers and Prostitutes 67 13 Conversations with the General 71 14 Entering a New and Sinister Period in Economic History 76 15 The Saudi Arabian Money-laundering Affair 81 16 Pimping, and Financing Osama bin Laden 93 Part III 1975-1981 17 Panama Canal Negotiations and Graham Greene 101 18 Iran's King of Kings 108 19 Confessions of a Tortured Man 113 20 The Fall of a King 117 21 Colombia: Keystone of Latin America 120 22 American Republic versus Global Empire 124 23 The Deceptive Resume 131 24 Ecuador's President Battles Big Oil 141 25 I Quit 146 Part IV 1981-Present 26 Ecuador's Presidential Death 153 27 Panama: Another Presidential Death 158 28 My Energy Company, Enron, and George W. Bush 162 29 I Take a Bribe 167 30 The United States Invades Panama 173 31 An EHM Failure in Iraq 182 32 September 11 and its Aftermath for Me, Personally 189 33 Venezuela: Saved by Saddam 196 34 Ecuador Revisited 203 35 Piercing the Veneer 211 Epilogue 221 John Perkins Personal History 226 Notes 230 Index 240 About the Author 248","John Perkins",9780452287082,0452287081,"Trade Paperback",01/01/2006,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,303,.72IN,5.36IN,.50,1,Yes,2800452287084,,,B,Biography/Business,,
32,"2017-04-15 12:17:40",#Girlboss,,"Sophia Amoruso",9780399169274,039916927X,Hardcover,05/06/2014,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,241,8.50,5.75,1.00,,,,,,,,,
33,"2017-04-04 16:57:29","Work in Progress A Memoir",,"Connor Franta",9781476791616,1476791619,"Trade Paperback",04/21/2015,"Atria/Keywords Press",,,224,.80IN,5.40IN,.75,,Yes,9781476791616,"Connor Franta",,B,"Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts",,
34,"2017-04-28 20:28:13","Garlic & Sapphires The Secret...",,"Ruth Reichl",9780143036616,0143036610,"Trade Paperback",03/28/2006,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,333,.80IN,5.40IN,1.00,1,,2800143036618,,,B,"Reichl, Ruth|Food writers|Biography-Cooking|Biography - General|Cookery",,
35,"2017-04-06 02:36:09","The New Confessions of an...",,"John Perkins",9781626566743,1626566747,"Trade Paperback",02/09/2016,0100205,,,384,,,,,,,,,,"POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy/Economic Policy|Biography/Business",,
36,"2017-04-09 22:11:30","Bowerman & the Men of Oregon The...",,"Kenny Moore",9781594867316,1594867313,"Trade Paperback",09/04/2007,"MACMILLAN PUBLISHING SERVICES",,,432,1.40IN,5.90IN,1.25,1,Yes,2801594867318,,,B,"Track and field|Biography-Sports|History|Track and field coaches - United States|Nike (Firm) - History",,
37,"2017-04-06 02:36:52","Creativity Inc Overcoming the...",,"Ed Catmull",9780812993011,0812993012,Hardcover,04/08/2014,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,340,1.20IN,6.40IN,1.25,,Yes,,"Amy Wallace",,B,,,
38,"2017-04-28 20:30:18","My Story",,"Jo Malone",9781501110597,1501110594,Hardcover,11/29/2016,"Simon & Schuster",,,416,1.50IN,6.10IN,,,Yes,,,,B,"Biography - General",,
39,"2017-04-28 20:30:18","Keep Your Hard Earned Money Tax...",,"Henry Aiym Fellman",9780671015305,0671015303,"Trade Paperback",02/01/1998,"POCKET BOOKS",,,256,.72IN,5.32IN,,1,Yes,2800671015307,"Henry Aiy Fellman",,B,"Business-Tax Guides|Income tax -- Law and legislation.|Self-employed|Income tax -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Popular works.|Income tax",,
40,"2017-04-28 20:31:31","Dodge Brothers The Men The Motor...",,"Charles K Hyde",9780814332467,0814332463,Hardcover,04/08/2005,"WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS","Great Lakes Books (Hardcover)",,251,.92IN,7.32IN,1.00,1,Yes,2147483647,"Charles K. Hyde",,B,"History|United states|Dodge Brothers - History|Biography/Business|Automobile engineers -- United States.",,
41,"2017-04-02 18:37:08","Jean Baptiste Charbonneau",,"Ritter, Michael Lance",9781594578687,1594578680,"Trade Paperback",10/28/2004,"BookSurge Publishing",,,254,.53IN,6.00IN,,,,9781594578687,,,B,"Biography - General",,
42,"2017-04-15 16:47:00","Steve Jobs",,"Walter Isaacson",9781451648546,1451648545,"Trade Paperback",09/10/2013,"SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE",,,631,9.25,6.12,1.50,,,,,,,Biography/Business,,
43,"2017-04-15 16:47:37","Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax...",,"Michael Witwer",9781632862792,1632862794,Hardcover,10/06/2015,"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC",AD&D,,320,1.20IN,6.50IN,1.25,,Yes,,"Michael Witwer",,B,Biography/Business,,
44,"2017-04-28 20:32:53","Tap Dancing to Work Warren...",,"Warren Buffett, Carol J Loomis",9781591846802,1591846803,"Trade Paperback",12/31/2013,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,348,1.00IN,6.83IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Carol J Loomis",,B,"Business, Investing",,
45,"2017-04-27 07:22:30","Becoming Steve Jobs The Evolution...",,"Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli",9780385347402,0385347405,Hardcover,03/24/2015,"CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP INC",,,464,1.60IN,6.50IN,1.50,,Yes,,"Rick Tetzeli",,B,Biography/Business,,
46,"2017-04-02 18:38:06","Chinese Rules: Mao's Dog, Deng's Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons from the Front Lines in China","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsFrom the author of the international bestseller Mr. China comes another rollicking ride through the slick mega-cities and industrial backwaters of twenty-first-century China—part adventure story, part erudite myth-buster, and part practical rule book to help Westerners win in China.China's role as struggling underdog is now firmly a thing of the past. The world has tilted eastward in its orbit even as the West seems mired in self-doubt. Through living and working in China for more than two decades, Tim Clissold has uncovered stealth methods Westerners can use to straighten out complicated situations in China and achieve their own objectives.Revealing the hidden logic that governs the Chinese business and political landscape, Clissold puts China's cultural, political, and military history into context and explains the mind-set that drives Chinese political and business leaders—a resource that has been sorely lacking in most books about doing business in China.Here, with sharp observations and a deep appreciation for China's rich past, Clissold presents five rules anyone can use to deal effectively with modern Chinese counterparts. These include understanding that: China has its own set of rules that provide a unique pathway to success; the quest for stability overrides all others; in China, one should never attack directly; in solving problems, stick to practicalities and avoid arguments over theory; and knowing yourself and knowing the ""other"" will help you survive a hundred battles.Combining exuberant storytelling, sly humor, and counterintuitive insights, Chinese Rules traces Clissold's latest adventures, providing an object lesson in the contradictions between reality and conventional belief that continue to make China a fascinating, perplexing, and irresistible destination for Westerners.Review""Drawing on more than 20 years of experience living and working in China, Clissold (Mr. China) a British businessman, offers five lessons that are absolutely crucial to understanding, appreciating, and ultimately working with and competing against the Chinese. These lessons are delivered through two parallel narratives. Clissold looks back to 2005, when he suddenly became involved in an emerging investment market based in China. He cofounded an investment company and invested in the carbon credits market. His recounting of his ensuing struggle to build a successful business aptly conveys the gaps between Western and Chinese business and social practices. These gaps can only be bridged by a working knowledge of the history of Chinese culture, traditions, and society. And so, second, the book is part history: Clissold recounts carefully selected historical episodes, from the dispatch of a British embassy to China in 1792 to the political rise of Mao and his successor Deng Xiaoping, as well as an account of the deadly 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square. Clissold's memoir is less than captivating — it's an 'adventure' only insofar as investing is an adventure — but the historical portion is well-told. Perhaps most importantly, Clissold's advice is timely and may even be useful to those outside the business world as well in."" Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.ReviewPraise for Mr. China:“Clissolds memoir is an instant classic. Sharply observed, funny as hell. Indispensible.” Time magazineReview“Delightful… this trenchant, immensely entertaining study in the contradictions of Chinese capitalism should be required reading.” FortuneReview“An adventure tale. Clissold is a wonderful and compassionate narrator (with) a deep respect for the culture, language, and history.” USA TodayReview“One would be hard-pressed to find a serious Western investor in China who isnt aware of Clissolds eye-opening account.” ForbesReview“Lots of Western businessmen have China war stories, but only Tim Clissold has written . . . this funny book.” NewsweekReview“One of the wittiest, most compelling accounts of anything Ive read in a long time. A terrific book.” Tucker CarlsonReview“A compelling account, related with sly humor and hard-earned wisdom.” Library JournalReview“Hugely entertaining…Clissold loves China…but he also views it with clarity and no small amount of humor.” Washington PostReview“A pragmatic application of good-sense peasant wisdom in negotiating big financial deals with the Chinese....Clissolds deep knowledge of Chinese culture and language informs this useful work.” KirkusReview“Clissolds advice is timely and may even be useful to those outside the business world as well as in.” Publishers WeeklyReview“The insights Clissold sheds on deal-making in China ultimately stem from an ability - born of years of experience and his fluency in Mandarin - to see any situation from a local counterpartys viewpoint.” Financial TimesSynopsisFrom the author of the acclaimed Mr. China comes another rollicking adventure story—part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio—that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China.In the twenty-first century, the world has tilted eastwards in its orbit; China grows confident while the West seems mired in doubt. Having lived and worked in China for more than two decades, Tim Clissold explains the secrets that Westerners can use to navigate through its cultural and political maze. Picking up where he left off in the international bestseller Mr. China, Chinese Rules chronicles his most recent exploits, with assorted Chinese bureaucrats, factory owners, and local characters building a climate change business in China. Of course, all does not go as planned as he finds himself caught between the worlds largest carbon emitter and the worlds richest man. Clissold offers entertaining and enlightening anecdotes of the absurdities, gaffes, and mysteries he encountered along the way.Sprinkled amid surreal scenes of cultural confusion and near misses, are smart myth-busting insights and practical lessons Westerns can use to succeed in China. Exploring key episodes in that nations long political, military, and cultural history, Clissold outlines five Chinese Rules, which anyone can deploy in on-the-ground situations with modern Chinese counterparts. These Chinese rules will enable foreigners not only to cooperate with China but also to compete with it on its own terms.About the AuthorTim Clissold has lived and worked in China for more than twenty years and has traveled to most parts of the country. After graduating with degrees in physics and theoretical physics from Cambridge University, and working in London, Australia, and Hong Kong, he developed a fascination with China. He spent two years studying Mandarin in Beijing before cofounding a private equity group that invested more than $400 million there. He has since spent time at Goldman Sachs recovering distressed assets and, more recently, started a business that invests in projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in China through the UN's Clean Development Mechanism. Mr. China was his first book. It has been translated into twelve languages and was an Economist magazine Book of the Year.","Tim Clissold",9780062316578,0062316575,Hardcover,11/04/2014,Harper,,English,256,1.10IN,6.30IN,1.25,,,,"Tim Clissold",,B,Biography/Business,,
47,"2017-04-08 02:15:21","Confessions of an Economic Hit...",,"John Perkins",9781576753019,1576753018,Hardcover,09/01/2004,"BERRETT-KOEHLER PUBLISHERS",,,250,9.25,6.50,1.00,1,,2801576753011,,,,"Biography/Business|CURRENT EVENTS / Political",,
48,"2017-04-25 15:13:03","Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth...",,"Chris Hadfield",9780316253017,0316253014,Hardcover,10/29/2013,"Little Brown and Company",,English,304,1.13IN,6.30IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Chris Hadfield",,B,"Biography - General",,
49,"2017-04-02 18:38:32","Perpetual Becoming",,"Alanis Morissette",9780062313959,0062313959,Hardcover,05/02/2018,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",,,304,1.01IN,6.00IN,1.01,,,,,,B,"Biography-Entertainment and Performing Arts",,
50,"2017-04-27 07:08:40",Testimony,,"Robbie Robertson",9780307889782,0307889785,Hardcover,11/15/2016,"Crown Archetype",,English,512,,,,,,,,,B,"Biography-Composers and Musicians",,
51,"2017-04-06 02:31:15","Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A...",,"Carrie Brownstein",9781594486630,1594486638,Hardcover,10/27/2015,"Riverhead Books",,,,,,,,,,,,,"Biography - General",,
54,"2017-04-02 18:38:50","Girl in a Band","From Powells.comStaff PickKim Gordon may be best known for playing bass in Sonic Youth, but her memoir proves she’s as talented a writer as she is a musician. Gordon covers everything from her upbringing to her very public separation from Thurston Moore in this must-read for Sonic Youth fans, musicians, and feminists. Recommended By Ashleigh B., Powells.comLittle restraint and unflinching fearlessness. Unapologetic. Candid, with a hint of underlying rage. Girl in a Band is a must-read for music lovers, fashion lovers, history buffs, women, men, and everyone in between. Recommended By Ronnie C., Powells.com Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsKim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just Kids.Often described as aloof, Kim Gordon opens up as never before in Girl in a Band. Telling the story of her family, growing up in California in the '60s and '70s, her life in visual art, her move to New York City, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship with her daughter, her music, and her band, Girl in a Band is a rich and beautifully written memoir.Gordon takes us back to the lost New York of the 1980s and '90s that gave rise to Sonic Youth, and the Alternative revolution in popular music. The band helped build a vocabulary of music—paving the way for Nirvana, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins and many other acts. But at its core, Girl in a Band examines the route from girl to woman in uncharted territory, music, art career, what partnership means—and what happens when that identity dissolves.Evocative and edgy, filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a transformative life, Girl in a Band is the fascinating chronicle of a remarkable journey and an extraordinary artist.Review“Kim Gordon writes the way she plays. Fiercely, honestly, and with the creative abandon of a singular artist.” AMY POEHLER, actor, producer, writerReview“Ive always admired Kim Gordon. She is cool, smart, and dignified. Girl in a Band is a fascinating and honest memoir full of raw emotion and insight.” SOFIA COPPOLA, filmmakerReview“The best thing one of your heroes can do is make you feel heroic yourself. Kim Gordon has done just that in her memoir; it is full of beauty and power, inspiration, kindness, boldness and hope.” CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, writer, actor, musicianCARRIE BROWNSTEIN, writer, actor, musicianReview“Written with the same cool passion she brings to her lyrics, Gordon delivers a generous look at life inside the punk whirlwind.” Kirkus ReviewsReviewEverybody loves Kim Gordon. So its pretty much my bet that everybody will be hanging on the words of anyone whos read her forthcoming memoir (which is reportedly phenomenal). [Ed. note: Its even better than youre probably expecting.] FlavorwireReview“From beginning to end, the icon chronicles the evolution of music, art, and herself, set in and out of an ever-changing New York.” InterviewReviewGordons career as a musician, artist, critic, performer, producer, and designer spanned the last truly hip era of downtown New York. The names and the nostalgia-for those who remember or who wish they did-are well worth the price of admission. BooklistReviewAn intriguing memoir. . . [Gordons] unique sensibility never fades. Publishers WeeklyReview“heartbreaking, raw, articulate, and inspiring.” Bust MagazineSynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERKim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story--a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smith's Just Kids.Often described as aloof, Kim Gordon opens up as never before in Girl in a Band. Telling the story of her family, growing up in California in the '60s and '70s, her life in visual art, her move to New York City, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship with her daughter, her music, and her band, Girl in a Band is a rich and beautifully written memoir.Gordon takes us back to the lost New York of the 1980s and '90s that gave rise to Sonic Youth, and the Alternative revolution in popular music. The band helped build a vocabulary of music--paving the way for Nirvana, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins and many other acts. But at its core, Girl in a Band examines the route from girl to woman in uncharted territory, music, art career, what partnership means--and what happens when that identity dissolves.Evocative and edgy, filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a transformative life, Girl in a Band is the fascinating chronicle of a remarkable journey and an extraordinary artist.About the AuthorKim Gordon is an artist, musician, producer, fashion designer, writer and actress.She is a founding member of the experimental post-punk band Sonic Youth. Following the breakup of Sonic Youth, Gordon formed the group Body/Head. A collection of her early critical art writing entitled Is It My Body? was released by Sternberg Press in January 2014. Recent art exhibitions include a show of paintings through the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles and a major survey show at White Columns in New York. Gordon currently shows with 303 Gallery in New York City. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts; New York; and Los Angeles.","Kim Gordon",9780062295903,006229590X,"Trade Paperback",12/01/2015,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",,,288,.60IN,5.30IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Kim Gordon",,B,"Biography-Composers and Musicians",,
55,"2017-04-27 07:09:49","The Speed of Sound: Breaking the...",,"Thomas Dolby",9781250071842,1250071844,Hardcover,10/11/2016,"Flatiron Books",,,288,1.20IN,6.40IN,,,,,,,B,,,
56,"2017-04-02 18:38:59",Life,"Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsThe long-awaited autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Ladies and gentlemen: Keith Richards. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in Jumping Jack Flash and Honky Tonk Women. His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever. With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.Review""[A] high-def, high-velocity portrait of the era when rock 'n' roll came of age, a raw report from deep inside the counterculture maelstrom of how that music swept like a tsunami over Britain and the United States....Mr. Richards has found a way to channel to the reader his own avidity, his own deep soul hunger for music and to make us feel the connections that bind one generation of musicians to another. Along the way he even manages to communicate something of that magic, electromagnetic experience of playing on stage with his mates, be it in a little club or a huge stadium."" Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Review""[A] slurry romp through the life of a man who knew every pleasure, denied himself nothing, and never paid the price."" David Remnick, The New YorkerReview""The ultimate Keith Richards album."" Hillel Italie, Associated PressReview""Rollicking and raw."" PeopleReview""What kind of celebrity autobiography is his Life? A remarkable one."" The Wall Street JournalReview""[Richards] not only has the best tunes, he also knows how to tell the best tales."" Entertainment WeeklyReview""Compelling, endearing, insightful, action-packed, graceful, generous-spirited, unflinching, and funny."" The Philadelphia InquirerReview""A vivid self-portrait and, of the Stones and their musical era, a grand group portrait...spellbinding storytelling."" Richard Corliss, TimeAbout the AuthorKeith Richards was born in London in 1943. A guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and cofounder of the Rolling Stones, he has also released solo albums with his band, The X-Pensive Winos. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Patti Hansen. James Fox was born in Washington, D.C., in 1945 and has known Keith Richards since the early 1970's when he was a journalist for the Sunday Times in London. His books include the international bestseller White Mischief. He lives in London with his wife and sons.","Keith Richards, James Fox",9780316034418,031603441X,"Trade Paperback",05/03/2011,"HACHETTE BOOK GROUP",,,564,1.70IN,5.40IN,1.50,,Yes,,"Keith Richards",,B,"Biography-Composers and Musicians",,
57,"2017-04-27 07:09:41",Life,,"Keith Richards",9780316034388,031603438X,Hardcover,10/26/2010,"HACHETTE BOOK GROUP",,,564,1.74IN,6.43IN,2.00,1,Yes,4294967295,,,B,,,
58,"2017-04-06 02:32:29","Girl in a Band",,"Kim Gordon",9780062295897,0062295896,Hardcover,02/24/2015,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",,,288,1.20IN,6.40IN,.75,,Yes,,"Kim Gordon",,B,"Biography-Composers and Musicians",,
59,"2017-04-27 02:51:45","Trouble Boys: The True Story of...",,"Bob Mehr",9780306818790,0306818795,Hardcover,03/01/2016,"DA CAPO PRESS",,,520,1.70IN,6.50IN,,,Yes,,"Bob Mehr",,B,"Music-Individual Composer and Musician",,
60,"2017-04-06 02:33:07","Art of Asking How I Learned to...",,"Palmer, Amanda",9781455581085,1455581089,Hardcover,11/11/2014,"Grand Central Publishing",,,352,1.30IN,5.80IN,1.00,7,Yes,,"Brene Brown",,B,"Biography-Composers and Musicians",,
61,"2017-04-06 02:33:07","The Art of Asking: How I Learned...",,"Amanda Palmer",9781455581092,1455581097,"Trade Paperback",10/20/2015,"Grand Central Publishing",,,340,8.25,5.25,1.00,,,,,"Brené Brown",,,,
62,"2017-04-27 07:11:08",Bear,,"Robert Greenfield",9781250081216,1250081211,Hardcover,11/15/2016,"Thomas Dunne Books",,,288,1.10IN,5.80IN,,,Yes,,,,B,,,
63,"2017-05-10 03:44:19","Homeward Bound The Life of Paul...",,"Peter Ames Carlin",9781627790345,1627790349,Hardcover,10/11/2016,"Henry Holt & Company",,,432,1.60IN,6.40IN,,,Yes,,"Peter AmesCarlin",,B,,,
64,"2017-04-28 20:27:22","Tao of Wu",,RZA,9781594484858,1594484856,"Trade Paperback",11/02/2010,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,208,.60IN,5.21IN,.50,1,,4294967295,"The RZA",,B,"Music-Hip Hop and Rap",,
65,"2017-04-06 02:34:39","Sounds Like Me My Life So Far in...",,"Sara Bareilles",9781476727776,1476727775,Hardcover,10/06/2015,"Simon & Schuster",,,208,1.00IN,5.50IN,1.00,,Yes,,"Sara Bareilles",,B,"Biography - General",,
66,"2017-04-27 07:11:15","Unfaithful Music and Disappearing...",,"Elvis Costello",9780399167256,0399167250,Hardcover,10/13/2015,"Blue Rider Press",,,674,9.25,9.25,1.25,11,,,"Elvis Costello",,,"Biography-Composers and Musicians",,
67,"2017-04-27 07:11:38","Deal: My Three Decades of...",,"Kreutzmann, Bill",9781250033796,1250033799,Hardcover,05/05/2015,"ST MARTINS PRESS",,,400,1.40IN,6.30IN,1.00,9,Yes,,"Benjy Eisen",,B,"Biography-Composers and Musicians",,
68,"2017-04-06 02:35:22","Words Without Music A Memoir",,"Philip Glass",9780871404381,0871404389,Hardcover,04/06/2015,"Liveright Publishing Corporation",,,432,1.48IN,6.53IN,1.25,,Yes,,"Philip Glass",,B,"Biography-Composers and Musicians",,
69,"2017-04-02 18:41:03","Porcelain: A Memoir","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsFrom one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late ’80s and ’90s. There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene. This was the New York of Palladium; of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo; of unchecked, drug-fueled hedonism in pumping clubs where dance music was still largely underground, popular chiefly among working-class African Americans and Latinos. And then there was Moby—not just a poor, skinny white kid from Connecticut, but a devout Christian, a vegan, and a teetotaler. He would learn what it was to be spat on, to live on almost nothing. But it was perhaps the last good time for an artist to live on nothing in New York City: the age of AIDS and crack but also of a defiantly festive cultural underworld. Not without drama, he found his way. But success was not uncomplicated; it led to wretched, if in hindsight sometimes hilarious, excess and proved all too fleeting. And so by the end of the decade, Moby contemplated an end in his career and elsewhere in his life, and put that emotion into what he assumed would be his swan song, his good-bye to all that, the album that would in fact be the beginning of an astonishing new phase: the multimillion-selling Play. At once bighearted and remorseless in its excavation of a lost world, Porcelain is both a chronicle of a city and a time and a deeply intimate exploration of finding one’s place during the most gloriously anxious period in life, when you’re on your own, betting on yourself, but have no idea how the story ends, and so you live with the honest dread that you’re one false step from being thrown out on your face. Moby’s voice resonates with honesty, wit, and, above all, an unshakable passion for his music that steered him through some very rough seas. Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It’s about finding your people, your place, thinking you’ve lost them both, and then, somehow, when you think it’s over, from a place of well-earned despair, creating a masterpiece. As a portrait of the young artist, Porcelain is a masterpiece in its own right, fit for the short shelf of musicians’ memoirs that capture not just a scene but an age, and something timeless about the human condition. Push play.Publisher Weekly Reviews""A love letter to chaotic 1990s New York…Moby’s prose is honest, self-deprecating, and full of mordant wit, and when music is playing, it shines with exhilarating emotion."" Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)ReviewThe gazillion record–selling techno rocker recalls 10 alternately absurd and rapturous years breaking into the music biz in this exuberant memoir. Beginning in 1989 when he was squatting in an abandoned factory sending demo tapes into the void and ending with his 1999 breakout hit Play Moby recounts his ascent through deejay gigs at New York dance clubs where he achieved middling success with his electronic anthems for the rave scene. It’s a story of crummy apartments psychotic roommates and no money—the book is a love letter to chaotic 1990s New York—and then of uninhabitable hotel rooms muddy outdoor festivals and stages hung with bloody goats’ heads. Moby a Christian vegan and teetotaller is a monkish anomaly at the party and though there are episodes of excess—spinning at a swingers’ party; his own stab at public sex—his outsider status makes him a keen clear headed and very funny observer of fleshpots. When he starts drinking heavily and consorting with strippers he treats the turn neither as liberation nor descent but as a new chapter that generates both regrets and insights. Moby’s prose is honest self deprecating and full of mordant wit and when music is playing—“My ears rang with the sound of ten thousand ravers in a field at dawn”—it shines with exhilarating emotion. Agent: Daniel Greenberg Levine Greenberg Literary. (May) "" Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.""Review""This is one of the funniest and most accessible books you’ll ever read about an erstwhile Christian/alcoholic vegan electronic music maker. Throughout the adventures and misadventures, Danish music festivals and Barbadan disasters, Moby manages to stay wide-eyed, grateful and amazed, which itself is a real gift to the reader: we feel welcome in—or just as out of place as he feels—in the world of rock and raves and clubs. He remakes the music world into the form it should be: nonexclusive, unpretentious, less about division and stratification, and more about radical inclusion. Music shouldn’t exist any other way."" Dave EggersReview""Full disclosure: Moby is a friend of mine, yet I had no idea that he was such a brilliant writer and storyteller. Porcelain, to me, is a classic and beautifully told bildungsroman—a young man comes to the city to find himself. And Moby tells this tale of his youth—his search for meaning and music—with gorgeous clarity, comedy, and compassion. Porcelain also serves as a history of downtown New York of a certain time, a New York that doesn’t really exist anymore, but I was very happy to reencounter it here through Moby’s particular and fascinating lens."" Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir! Review""Ten years of Moby’s life, mostly in the decrepit, dangerous, much-loved New York City of the 1990s, a life comically overcrowded, filthy, alcohol-fuelled, vegan, unbelievably noisy, full of spit and semen and some sort of Christianity; and often, suddenly, moving. The writing is terrific, enlivened by a bewildered deadpan humor that makes crazy sense of it all. His ancestor Herman Melville would, I think, be simultaneously revolted and proud."" Salman RushdieReview""Entertainingly gritty… A distinctive addition to the recent spate of well-written memoirs by contemporary musicians, a list that would include the likes of Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, and Carrie Brownstein."" Kirkus ReviewsAbout the AuthorMoby was named the world’s bestselling alternative musician in 2001 and is the winner of four MTV Music awards. Known for his political and social activism, he has been a vegan for more than fifteen years. Moby on the web: http://www.moby.com",Moby,9781594206429,1594206422,Hardcover,05/17/2016,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,416,1.40IN,6.50IN,,,Yes,,,,B,,,
70,"2017-04-02 18:41:08","Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock n Roll","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsThe author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.Review""A monumental biography of the larger-than-life loner who fought for the acceptance of black music and discovered an extraordinary group of poor, country-boy singers whose records would transform American popular culture.... A wonderful story that brings us deep into that moment when America made race music its own and gave rise to the rock sound now heard around the world."" Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Review""Sam Phillips is an epic biography, at once sweeping and personal, in which the gifted writer Peter Guralnick captures the voice and life of a transformational figure in American music."" Jess Walter, author of Beautiful RuinsReview""When Elvis Presley stepped into a Memphis recording studio with producer Sam Phillips in 1954, they defined rock 'n' roll as we know it. Peter Guralnick already gave us Elvis's story in two landmark books. He now returns with a brilliant, intensely human look at Phillips, the endlessly fascinating figure who also recorded Johnny Cash, B.B King, Howlin' Wolf, and Jerry Lee Lewis. It's a bold, insightful work that tells us in novelistic detail about the obsessions and struggles of the man who presided over the uneasy birth of rock 'n' roll."" Robert Hilburn, author of Johnny CashReview""Peter Guralnick isn't just a music writer or a biographer — he's one of the essential chroniclers of American popular culture, and his work illuminates some of the crucial components of our national identity: race, religion, fame, and the big business of having fun, among others. In this epic biography of Sam Phillips, Guralnick bears witness to the birth of rock and roll and the cultural revolution it inspired. It's not only an unforgettable portrait of an eccentric visionary, it's a testament to the power of ordinary people to change the world with nothing more than a beautiful idea and a handful of songs."" Tom Perrotta, author of The LeftoversAbout the AuthorPeter Guralnick has written extensively on American music and musicians. His books include the prize-winning Elvis Presley two-part biography Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; an acclaimed trilogy on American roots music, Sweet Soul Music, Lost Highway and Feel Like Going Home; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson; the novel Nighthawk Blues; and Dream Boogie, a biography of Sam Cooke. He splits his time between Nashville and Massachusetts.","Peter Guralnick",9780316042741,0316042749,Hardcover,11/10/2015,"Little Brown and Company",,,763,9.25,6.25,1.50,,,,,,,"Biography-Composers and Musicians",,
71,"2017-04-02 18:41:14","Boys in the Trees: A Memoir",,"Carly Simon",9781250095916,1250095913,"Trade Paperback",11/01/2016,"Flatiron Books",,,384,1.10IN,5.40IN,,,,,,,B,,,
72,"2017-04-28 20:28:19","Scar Tissue",,"Kiedis, Anthony",9781401307455,1401307450,"Trade Paperback",10/19/2005,"HYPERION BOOKS",,,465,1.40IN,5.30IN,1.25,1,Yes,2801401307457,"Larry Ratso Sloman",,B,"Personal Memoirs|Biography-Composers and Musicians",,
97,"2017-04-08 15:33:16","Coco Chanel",,"Lisa Chaney",9780143122128,0143122126,"Trade Paperback",11/27/2012,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,448,1.20IN,6.00IN,1.00,,Yes,,,,B,"Biography-Women|Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
98,"2017-04-06 02:52:30","All Tomorrows Parties",,"Rob Spillman",9780802124838,0802124836,Hardcover,04/05/2016,"Grove Press",,,400,1.30IN,5.50IN,,,,,,,B,,,
99,"2017-04-27 07:42:09","M Train",,"Patti Smith",9781101923009,1101923008,"Compact Disc",11/03/2015,"Random House Audio Publishing Group",,,,1.10IN,5.00IN,1.25,,,,,,A,"Biography - General",,
100,"2017-04-26 14:12:52","Diary of Frida Kahlo an Intimate...",,"Frida Kahlo",9780810959545,0810959542,Hardcover,08/09/2005,"HARRY N ABRAMS INC",,,295,1.07IN,6.40IN,1.00,1,Yes,2800810959547,"rard de Cortanze",,B,"Painters|Art - Artists|Kahlo, Frida|Painters -- Mexico.|Children's 12-Up - Art & Art Instruction",,
101,"2017-04-27 07:33:11","Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of...",,"Lawrence Weschler",9780520256095,0520256093,"Trade Paperback",01/01/2009,"UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS",,,310,.90IN,6.20IN,1.00,1,Yes,2800520256097,"Ramiro Gomez",,B,"Artists|Art, modern|Artists -- United States.|Art, Modern -- 20th century.|Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
102,"2017-04-07 17:26:09","Behind Every Man: The Story of...",,"Stauffer, Joan",9780806139524,0806139528,"Trade Paperback",01/15/1990,"University of Oklahoma Press",,English,357,.99IN,6.09IN,1.00,1,Yes,2800806139526,,,B,"Literature-A to Z|Biographical fiction|West (u.s.)|Women -- West (U.S.)",,
103,"2017-04-09 14:28:03","Inside Lincolns White House The...",,"John Hay, Michael Burlingame, John R. Turner Ettlinger",9780809322626,0809322625,"Trade Paperback",02/01/1999,"SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS",,,416,.90IN,6.00IN,1.25,1,,9780809322626,"John R. Turner Ettlinger",,B,"Biography-Historical|Lincoln, Abraham, Pres. U. S., 1809-1865|United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)|Hay, john, 1838-1905",,
104,"2017-04-28 20:38:31","Con Todo Mi Humor, Alexis Valdes",,"Valdes, Alexis",9781622630486,1622630483,"Trade Paperback",10/31/2013,Aguilar,,Spanish,150,.44IN,5.92IN,.50,,,9781622630486,S,,B,,,
105,"2017-04-25 15:44:53","Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of...",,"Sarah McPhee",9780300175271,0300175272,Hardcover,06/12/2012,"Yale University Press",,English,260,1.10IN,7.10IN,1.00,,Yes,,,,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
106,"2017-04-27 07:36:48","Raphael: A Passionate Life",,"Forcellino, Antonio",9780745644110,0745644112,Hardcover,07/13/2012,"Polity Press",,English,260,1.10IN,6.10IN,1.25,,Yes,9780745644110,"Lucinda (TRN) Byatt",,B,,,
107,"2017-04-02 18:43:43","Fairy Tale Girl",,"Susan Branch",9780996044011,0996044019,Hardcover,10/30/2015,"Spring Street Publishing",,,,1.00IN,6.75IN,1.00,,Yes,,,,B,"Biography - General",,
108,"2017-04-27 07:38:12","Stelarc: The Monograph",,"Marquard Smith",9780262693608,0262693607,"Trade Paperback",10/01/2007,"MIT Press (MA)","Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice",English,256,.64IN,7.35IN,.75,1,Yes,2800262693600,"Jane Goodall",,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
109,"2017-04-02 18:44:06","Its Kind of a Cute Story",,"Rolly Crump",9780985470647,098547064X,"Trade Paperback",11/20/2012,"Bamboo Forest Publishing",,,192,.50IN,8.50IN,,,,9780985470647,,,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
110,"2017-04-02 18:44:15","In Montmartre Picasso Matisse & the Birth of Modernist Art","Synopses & ReviewsSynopsisA lively and deeply researched group biography of the vibrant figures who invented modernist art in bohemian Paris at the dawn of the twentieth century When the young Pablo Picasso first arrived in Paris in 1900, the most progressive young artists all lived and worked in the seedy hillside quarter of Montmartre, in the shade of the old windmills. Over the next decade, among the studios, salons, cafes, dance halls, and galleries of Montmartre, the young Spaniard joined the likes of HenriMatisse, AndreDerain, MauricedeVlaminck, GeorgesBraque, AmedeoModigliani, ConstantinBrancusi, GertrudeStein, and many more in revolutionizing artistic expression. Blending exceptional scholarship with graceful prose, Sue Roe paints a remarkable group portrait of the men and women who profoundly changed the arts of painting, sculpture, dance, music, literature, and fashion. She describes the origins of such movements as Fauvism, Cubism, and Futurism, and reconstructs the stories behind immortal paintings by Picasso and Matisse. She shows how daily life in Montmartre which brought artists together with acrobats and dancers, prostitutes and clowns provided an essential cauldron for artistic experimentation and for the colorful relationships, friendships, loyalties, and feuds that gave rise to some of the most pathbreaking and lasting works of the twentieth century. In Montmartre is a thrilling account of an extraordinary group of artists on the cusp of fame and immortality that brings vividly to life one of the key moments in the history of modern art. Praise for In Montmartre A lively and concise account . . . Roe is] very good at synthesizing and distilling complicated art movements and ideas without getting bogged down in technical details or jargon. And she offers up plenty of juicy tidbits about the artists love affairs, infidelities, opium parties, and eccentric habits. . . . Roe s book is a great introduction to one of the most pivotal periods in 20th century art. Even those familiar with the era will likely find that it broadens their understanding of key players and events. Associated Press""","Sue Roe",9780143108122,0143108123,"Trade Paperback",04/19/2016,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE",,,384,1.00IN,5.40IN,,,Yes,,,,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
111,"2017-04-27 07:47:13","Drawing Blood",,"Molly Crabapple",9780062323644,0062323644,Hardcover,12/01/2015,HARPER,,,352,1.10IN,6.50IN,1.25,,Yes,,"Molly Crabapple",,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
112,"2017-04-27 07:41:41","Kippenberger: The Artist and His...",,"Kippenberger, Susanne",9780982964286,0982964285,"Trade Paperback",05/31/2013,"J & L Books",,English,564,1.70IN,5.60IN,1.75,,Yes,,,"John Wray",B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
113,"2017-04-02 18:44:46","Sisters The Saga of the Mitford Family","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsThe Mitford girls were probably the most spectacular sister act of the twentieth century.""--Vogue This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful Diana was the most hated woman in England; and Unity Valkyrie, born in Swastika, Alaska, would become obsessed with Adolf Hitler.ReviewA rivetingly intimate history lesson. (San Francisco Chronicle)ReviewLovell rises with aplomb to the challenges of a group biography...a fascinating account of a fascinating family. (Publishers Weekly)Review""A dazzling cast of characters.... A rivetingly intimate history lesson."" Anneli RufusReview""Vivid social history that reads like a novel.... An impressive group biography."" San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewReview""These women were so powerfully, inescapably, passionately alive.... The book remains engrossing from beginning to end."" Malinda Nash Houston ChronicleReview""Lovell deftly weaves together the various strands of her subjects' lives, making great use of letters, interviews and unpublished correspondence, as well as interviews with the two surviving Mitford sisters, Diana and Deborah."" John Powers VogueReview""This biography presents a fascinating family to a new generation of readers."" Matthew Price NewsdaySynopsisThe Mitfords had style and presence and were mercilessly gifted. Above all, they were funny--hilariously and mercilessly so. In this wise, evenhanded, and generous book, Mary Lovell captures the vitality and drama of a family that took the twentieth century by storm and became, in some respects, its victims.SynopsisThis is the Story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful Diana was the most hated woman in England; and Unity Valkyrie, born in Swastika, Alaska, would become obsessed with Adolf Hitler.SynopsisThis is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the bestselling novelists of her day; the beautiful Diana was the most hated woman in England; and Unity Valkyrie, born in Swastika, Alaska, would become obsessed with Adolf Hitler.Synopsis""[A] balanced, well-researched, and beautifully written biography....[an] exceptional achievement.""--Bay Area Reporter, Tavo AmadorSynopsis""Fascinating, the way all great family stories are fascinating.""--Robert Gottlieb,About the AuthorMary S. Lovell's best-selling biographies include Straight on Till Morning (Beryl Markham) and The Sisters (the Mitford family). She lives in England.","Mary S Lovell",9780393324143,0393324141,"Trade Paperback",03/17/2003,"W W NORTON & CO",,,640,1.70IN,5.40IN,1.25,1,Yes,2800393324145,"Mary S Lovell",,B,"Biography - General",,
114,"2017-04-11 11:34:09","My Life",,"Chagall, Marc",9780720613568,0720613566,"Trade Paperback",05/01/2011,"Peter Owen Publishers",,English,171,.70IN,4.80IN,.50,,Yes,,"Marc Chagall",,B,"Biography-Artists Architects and Photographers",,
115,"2017-04-27 07:55:31","Keith Haring Journals",,"Keith Haring",9780143105978,0143105973,"Trade Paperback",01/26/2010,"PENGUIN PUTNAM TRADE","Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions",,420,1.26IN,5.56IN,1.25,1,Yes,2800143105970,"Robert Farris Thompson",,B,"Art - Artists|Haring, Keith|Artists -- United States.",,
116,"2017-04-27 07:44:41",Rothko,,"Jacob Baal Teshuva",9783822818206,3822818208,"Trade Paperback",06/01/2006,"TASCHEN BOOKS",,,96,9.00,7.00,.25,1,,2803822818208,,,,"Art-History and Criticism|Painters",,
117,"2017-04-28 20:43:58","Paris Letters",,"Janice MacLeod",9781402288791,1402288794,"Trade Paperback",02/04/2014,Sourcebooks,,,258,.70IN,5.50IN,.80,,Yes,,,,B,"Biography - General",,
118,"2017-04-04 06:04:57","Drifting Life",,"Yoshihiro Tatsumi",9781897299746,1897299745,"Trade Paperback",04/14/2009,"FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX",,,855,2.40IN,6.50IN,2.25,1,Yes,2801897299748,"Taro Nettleton",,B,"BIO026000|Nonfiction|Graphic Novels-Nonfiction|CGN000000|Personal Memoirs",,
119,"2017-04-02 18:45:22","Sverre Fehn: The Pattern of Thoughts","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsAs recipient of the 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize—the professions highest honor—Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn has had an impact not only in his home country but around the globe. His projects, often described as being instilled with a human quality, include the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition and the Nordic Pavilion at the 1962 Venice Biennale, the Hamar Bispegaard Museum in Hamar, the Glacier Museum in Fjaerland Fjord, and the Aukrust Museum in Alvdal. Fehn has been strongly influenced by Scandinavias breathtaking landscape and light conditions. His design sensibility is characterized by a great respect for material and construction. As a professor of long standing at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, he has distilled his complex creative process, passing his thoughts and philosophies to new generations of architects. This study of Fehns work provides an intimate glimpse into the world of this great postwar modernist. Author Per Olaf Fjeld presents both biography and perceptive critique as he covers all of Fehns major projects, built and unbuilt, from world-renowned museums to lesser-known houses. Never-before-published comments by Fehn from lectures, interviews, and conversations with students as well as dynamic sketches are featured, opening a window into the mind of this poetic and personal architect.About the AuthorPer Olaf Fjeld is a professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Since 1975, he has run a small architectural studio with his wife, Emily Randall Fjeld. He has written a number of books and articles on architecture, most recently, Sverre Fehn: The Pattern of Thought, a biography and perceptive critique on the acclaimed postwar modernist.Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsMidsummer FramesThe Beginning of No ReturnEarly FameBeyond the Image of HomeThe Return of the HorizonPublic ConversationsA Twenty-Year Pit StopConnecting Heaven and EarthThe Mask and the CutParaphrasing NatureBefore Closing the GateNotesChronology of WorksCollaborators and ConsultantsSelected Bibliography Photography Credits","Per Olaf Fjeld",9781580932172,1580932177,Hardcover,06/30/2009,"Monacelli Press",,English,303,1.25IN,8.42IN,1.25,1,Yes,2801580932174,"Per-olaf Fjeld",,B,"General-General|Criticism and interpretation|Fehn, Sverre - Criticism and interpretation|Fehn, Sverre",,
120,"2017-04-27 07:47:13","Role Models",,"John Waters",9780374251475,0374251479,Hardcover,,"FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX",,,,,,,,,,,,,"Influence (literary, artistic, etc.)|Biography - General|Artists -- United States.|Personal Memoirs",,
193,"2017-04-15 20:13:56","Kitchen Confidential Updated...",,"Bourdain, Anthony",9780060899226,0060899220,"Trade Paperback",01/01/2007,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",Ecco,,312,.82IN,5.39IN,1.00,1,,2800060899228,,,B,"Biography - General|Cooks|Bourdain, Anthony|Personal Memoirs|Biography-Cooking",,
194,"2017-04-28 20:27:41","Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to...",,"Bourdain, Anthony",9780061718946,0061718947,Hardcover,06/08/2010,"HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS",,,304,1.06IN,6.21IN,1.25,1,,4294967295,"the Top Chef winners and losers",,B,"Travel Writing-General|Biography-Cooking|Cooking and Food-General|General-General|Cooking and Food-Gastronomic Literature",,
195,"2017-04-06 02:34:39","Blood, Bones & Butter: The...",,"Hamilton, Gabrielle",9780812980882,0812980883,"Trade Paperback",01/24/2012,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,308,.80IN,5.20IN,1.00,,,,,,B,"Biography-Cooking|Biography - General",,
196,"2017-04-02 18:46:25","Kitchen Confidential","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsB format edition of Bourdain's irreverent and brilliantly rendered memoir of his 20-odd years spent working as a dishwasher, line cook and chef in New York and elsewhere. As well as blowing the whistle on various dodgy restaurant practices, Bourdain recounts his gradual, slow-building love affair with food and cooking in great style, evoking the fraught, hectic atmosphere of professional kitchens from Cape Cod to New York and Tokyo and back again. Superb stuff. Bourdain will also feature in a forthcoming cookery series on Channel 4, and his novels; ""Gone Bamboo"" and ""Bone In The Throat"" are published by Canongate Books.","Anthony Bourdain",9780747553557,0747553556,"Trade Paperback",,"TRAFALGAR SQUARE",,,320,"198 in.","129 in.",,,,2800747553559,,,,,,
197,"2017-04-08 15:32:22","Blood Bones & Butter The...",,"Gabrielle Hamilton",9781400068722,140006872X,Hardcover,03/01/2011,"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE",,,291,9.50,6.25,1.00,,,,"Gabrielle Hamilton",,,"Hamilton, Gabrielle|Biography - General|Restaurateurs - New York (State) - New York|Personal Memoirs|Biography-Cooking",,
198,"2017-04-02 18:46:52","Kitchen Confidential","Synopses & ReviewsPublisher CommentsWhen Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote ""Don't Eat Before You Read This"" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable shocking banquet that lays out his 25 years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine. From his first oyster in the Gironde to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers of the East Village, from the mobsters to the rats, Bourdain's brilliantly written, wild-but-true tales make the belly ache with laughter. Review""Unique...mesmerizing."" Newsweek","Anthony Bourdain",9780747550723,0747550727,Hardcover,,"TRAFALGAR SQUARE",,,"x, 307 p.",,,,,,2800747550725,,,,Cooks|Restaurants,,