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Tonight in Jungleland : The Making of Born to Run
by Peter Ames Carlin
Marks the album's 50th anniversary with an exploration of the creation of the iconic album through exclusive interviews and detailed song histories, revealing the emotional, artistic, and technical struggles that shaped one of rock music's most enduring statements. Illustrations.
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Here Beside the Rising Tide : Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
by Jim Newton
In 1965, in Palo Alto, Jerry Garcia opened a dictionary to a fable in which an appreciative soul repays the generosity of a traveler, a "gift of the grateful dead." Following the history of the Grateful Dead means tracking American cultural history through a period of radical reconsideration. For three decades, the band explored the meaning and limits of freedom. The radical message of the Dead, to reject the mainstream and build a bohemian community, radiated across the world, manifesting itself in art, music, business, and politics. Nearly a century after his birth, Garcia's influence stretches onward, expressed in guitar licks and a gentle way of life, one of excellence and gratitude, chasing freedom, living moment to moment, guided by song-the gift of the Grateful Dead.
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Ghosts of Hiroshima
by Charles Pellegrino
A story of ordinary people, both victims and survivors, thrown into extraordinary history. Pellegrino says his book is "simply the story of what happened to people and objects under the atomic bombs, and it is dedicated to the hope that no one will ever witness this, or die this way, again." An engrossing, highly recommended volume of firsthand accounts of the devastating and unprecedented bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Rope : How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization
by Tim Queeney
A unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilization. Tim Queeney is a sailor who knows more about rope and its importance to humankind than most. In Rope, Queeney takes readers on a ride through the history of rope and the way it weaves itself through the story of civilization. From Magellan’s world-circling ships, to the 15th-century fleet of Admiral Zheng He, to Polynesian multihulls with crab claw sails, he shows how without rope, none of their adventurous voyages and discoveries would have been possible. Time traveling, he describes the building of the pyramids, the Roman Coliseum, Hagia Sofia, Notre Dame, the Sultan Hasan Mosque, the Brooklyn Bridge, and countless other constructions that would not have been possible without rope.
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Hotshot : A Life on Fire
by River Selby
From 2000 to 2010, River Selby was a wildland firefighter whose given name was Anastasia. This is a memoir of that time in their life—of Ana, the struggles she encountered, and the constraints of what it means to be female-bodied in a male-dominated industry. An illuminating debut from a fierce new voice, Hotshot is a timely reckoning with both the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefighting.
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Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir
by Alyson Stoner
The former Disney Channel star offers a telling memoir—from family and eating issues to religious trauma— that begins in Hollywood but has a chilling relatability that will impact anyone navigating identity, purpose and mental health.
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