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Blood, Sweat, and My Rock 'n' Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star?

Steve Katz · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

On paper Steve Katzs career rivals anyones except the 1960s and 70s biggest stars the Monterey Pop Festival with the legendary Blues Project, Woodstock with Blood, Sweat Tears, and even producing rocks most celebrated speed addict, Lou Reed. There were world tours, and his résumé screams...
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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel

Annie Cohen-Solal · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American...
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Songs of the 1960s: The New Decade Series with Online Play-Along Backing Tracks

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 416
Format: Musical score

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) . 101 songs that defined the 1960s with all its revolutions in music and pop culture. The book includes optional orchestrated backing tracks for each song so you can sound like a pro. You access the tracks online for streaming or download. Songs include: All You Need...
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Painting Party: Acrylic Painting for Beginners

Anna Bartlett · North Light Books
Pages: 127
Format: Print book

Shiny happy paintings you can complete in an evening! Simply follow the steps to fun, beautiful paintings! Anna Bartlett has led hundreds of enthusiastic new painters through paint-alongs in her studio. It's a fun, stress-free way to experience the joy of painting while completing an original...
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A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory

Sara Midda · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the international bestseller In and Out of the Garden and the wondrous sketchbook Sara Midda’s South of France comes a long-awaited treasure of a book. Drawn from the artist’s wealth of impressions and memories, it is a book for lovers of food and art and fine...
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Journey Through Bali & Lombok.

· Tuttle Pub
Pages: 144
Format: Book

Whether readers are planning a trip to Bali or just fantasizing about one, "Journey Through Bali & Lombok" makes for an unforgettable Bali travel guide. Containing more than 300 color photographs, this breathtaking volume brings you from the trendy beach of Seminyak to the Monkey...
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First 50 broadway songs you should play on the piano.

Hal Leonard Corp. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 194
Format:  Print book : English

1 score (192 pages) ; 31 cm
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Leningrad: Siege and Symphony: The Story of the Great City Terrorized by Stalin, Starved by Hitler, Immortalized by Shostakovich

Brian Moynahan · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 542
Format: Hardcover

Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already many thousands had died...
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Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism

Thomas David Brothers · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 594
Format: Hardcover

The definitive account of Louis Armstrong -- his life and legacy -- during the most creative period of his career. Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago's music scene under the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong is recognized as one of the most influential artists...
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Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds

Rachelle Bergstein · Harper
Pages: 375
Format: Print book

From the author of Women from the Ankle Down comes a lively cultural biography of diamonds, which explores our society's obsession with the world's most brilliant gemstone and the real-world characters who make them shine."A diamond is forever." Who among us doesn't recognize...
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