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Becoming Almost Famous: My Back Pages in Music, Writing, and Life
This collection of favorite articles from Ben Fong-Torres features a slew of entertaining and informative music and pop-culture pieces on topics including Paul...
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The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio
This lively blast from the past peels back the many layers of the Top 40 phenomenon: the DJs, fans, singles, jingles, dedications, contests, requests and more. The...
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The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock 'n' Roll
The Rice Room is a brilliant and moving memoir of growing up in Oakland’s Chinatown, by one of America’s preeminent journalists. Ben Fong-Torres was the third child...
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Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons
Gram Parons lived hard and died young, and left behind a musical legacy that has influenced generations of rock and country legends. Ben Fong-Torres’ moving account...
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The Doors
In 1967, the Doors broke through with their debut album, and one critic declared: “The Beatles and the Stones are for blowing your mind, but the Doors are for...
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Her
Her
“A surreal semi-autobiographical blackbook record of a semi-mad period of my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh...
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Starting from San Francisco
Starting From San Francisco, first published in 1961, is the third collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poetry.
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A Coney Island of the Mind
The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller’s Into the Night Life. In it, Ferlinghetti expresses the way he felt during a short period in the 1950s. Taken...
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The Cool Eye: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Talks to Alexis Lykiard
The Cool Eye contains texts from two interviews (including two poems read by the author), and two new poems published here for the first time, as well as a cover...
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Love in the Days of Rage
“The more I make love, the more I want revolution; the more I make revolution, the more I want to make love.” In Paris, in May of 1968, revolution, and love are...
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Special anniversary revised edition! Please purchase from Bottom Dog Press. "When it comes to novels written about boot camp life in the United States military,...
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In this new collection of stories, Robert Flanagan again works muscular magic—bobbing, jabbing, and weaving with vivid dialogue and lively movements. We come...
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"A wonderful compendium of interesting subjects and fascinating topics. Will keep you reading just to found out what's going to be covered next. Highly recommended...
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Zandria and Olena continue their adventures in the land of Empyrean. Zandria discovers a magical crystal that may be the clue to finding their mother, who has been...
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In this third book of The Empyrical Tales, it is a year after the events of The Lost Queen. Zandria and her younger sister, Olena, seem to be growing apart. But now...
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Media psychologist Callahan is a failed Navy Seal, a recovering alcoholic and a loyal friend. He's also a man with a hot temper and a talent for getting himself...
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Co-authored with Steven W. Booth Meet Sheriff Penny Miller of Flat Rock, Nevada. Miller is the kind of woman who will do whatever it takes to protect those she is...
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"This invaluable collection of writing prompts and sage advice should be on every writer's shelf—and used!—alongside Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird and Stephen King's...
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Don't Let Me Go US edition
  “An excellent read.” –New Books Review “Original and wonderful.” –The Sun   The U.K. bestseller is now available in the U.S. for the first time!  ...
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DeMarco is asked to look into the murder conviction of a lobbyist. But he has other worries on his mind: his boss is no longer Speaker,his girlfriend has left him...
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