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Popular Culture March 2020
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As needed for pain : a memoir of addiction
by Daniel Peres
The award-winning former editor-in-chief of Details presents a cautionary memoir that reveals his celebrity encounters and private life as an opioid addict, detailing how his addiction significantly impacted his life and career.
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Acid for the children : a memoir
by Flea
The co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers documents his rise from a Los Angeles street youth to a famous rock artist, reflecting on the experiences and relationships that forged him as a musician and person.
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Astrology for Dummies
by Rae Orion
Using a vast array of real-life examples, the author, in this third edition, offers an insightful account of each sign and planet, taking us far beyond the daily horoscope and illuminating the birth chart in all its individuality and complexity.
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Barbie Forever : Her Inspiration, History, and Legacy
by Robin Gerber
Since her debut in 1959, Barbie has been breaking boundaries and highlighting major moments in art, fashion, and culture. She has been an interpreter of taste and style in every historic period she has lived through and has reflected female empowerment through the more than 200 careers she has embodied. Today, an international icon, Barbie continues to spark imaginations and influence conversations around the world.
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The age of entitlement : America since the sixties
by Christopher Caldwell
An zAmerican intellectual argues that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White House.
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Frida in America : the creative awakening of a great artist
by Celia Stahr
Describes the years the Mexican artist spent in America beginning in 1930 with her new, older, and already world-famous husband, Diego Rivera, and the impact living in diverse cities of San Francisco, Detroit and New York had on her painting.
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The age of football : soccer and the 21st century
by David Goldblatt
The “Game of Our Lives” podcaster and author of the best-selling The Ball Is Round presents a wide-reaching exploration of soccer and society that charts the sport’s global cultural ascent, economic transformation and deep politicization.
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The city game : triumph, scandal, and a legendary basketball team
by Matthew Goodman
Documents the controversial story of the mid-20th-century Harlem City College Beavers, tracing how the merit-based team of Jewish and African-American players won major tournaments in the face of segregation before its starting five were arrested for a major gambling racket.
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Rocket man : the life of Elton John
by Mark Bego
Here’s the book every pop music lover has been waiting for—full of the scandals, addictions, affairs, and tantrums that underscored the life of arguably the world’s greatest pop musician. Flamboyant, iconic Elton John is as much part of the American musical landscape as he is in his native England.
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Living in color : what's funny about me
by Tommy Davidson
The popular performer and standup comedian describes his life growing up black in a loving white family and the racial barriers he helped to break down on In Living Color alongside Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and the Wayans brothers.
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Facebook : the inside story
by Steven Levy
Draws on years of exclusive reporting and interviews with key Facebook insiders in a history of the world’s largest social media platform that examines the controversial decisions of founder Mark Zuckerberg and the company’s role in present-day security issues.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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