Life

Author: Keith Richards
The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. 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….Read More
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Skeletons at the Feast
In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, History, Refugees
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Now in paperback, this first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life with 50 new pages of… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Biography, Punk Rock Music
Scar Tissue
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
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Wench
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The Dirt
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Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, And The Enduring Mistreatment Of The Mentally Ill
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Cleopatra: A Life
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold,… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Biography, Rome (Empire)
Freedom
In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty:… Continue Reading Posted in: Domestic Fiction, Man Woman Relationships, Neighbors
The Girl Who Played with Fire
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Just Kids
In 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… Continue Reading Posted in: Mid Atlantic U.S. Biographies, Photographers, Punk Musician Biographies, United States, Women Rock Musicians
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