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  • The Grand Ole Opry

    The Making of an American Icon

    by Colin Escott ...
    This official guide chronicles the story of the birthplace of country music as told by the people who were there. Escott presents the official inside history of the home of country music, offering fans an exclusive look into the heart and soul of country music. Full color, and packed with photos from the Opry Archives covering 80 years of history. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • I Saw the Light

    The Story of Hank Williams

    The biography of the iconic American country music singer-songwriter that inspired the major motion picture I Saw the Light ."Fast and interesting reading. . . . An impressive book. . . . Probably the definitive word on Hank William's life." — Boston GlobeIn his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as "Your Cheatin' He... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hank Williams

    The Biography

    A "deftly written and ably researched" biography of the country music pioneer and the book that inspired the Tom Hiddleston film I Saw the Light ( Newsweek )."Our best look yet into Williams's pained, piercing eyes. . . . Escott has peeled away the layers of legend." — Philadelphia InquirerIn his brief life, Hank Williams create... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll

    The Illustrated Story of Sun Records and the 70 Recordings That Changed the World

    In Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1950s, there was hard-edged blues playing on Beale Street, and hillbilly boogie on the outskirts of town. But at Sam Phillips’ Sun Records studio on Union Avenue, there was something different going on – a whole lotta shakin’, rockin’, and rollin’. This is where rock ’n’ roll was born. Sun Records: the company that launched Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Good Rockin' Tonight

    Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'N' Roll

    The history of the record studio that birthed rock 'n' roll and launched the careers of some of America's legendary music stars.Memphis, Tennessee. The early 1950s. The Mississippi rolls by, and there's a train in the night. Down on Beale Street there's hard-edged blues, on the outskirts of town they're pickin' hillbilly boogie.At Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio on Union Avenue, there's something ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Johnny Cash

    The Life

    The national bestseller celebrated as "the ultimate Johnny Cash biography . . . Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep." -- Rolling StoneIn this, the definitive biography of an American legend, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical superstar. Johnny Cash's extraordinary career stretched from his days at Sun Records with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis to the remarkable ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Behind the Grand Ole Opry Curtain

    Tales of Romance and Tragedy

    The Grand Ole Opry has been home to the greatest legends of country music for over eighty years, and in that time it has seen some of conutry music's most dramatic stories unfold.We'll hear of the great love stories ranging from Johnny Cash and June Carter in the 1960s to Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who married in 2005. We'll get the truth of the tragedies that led to the loss of three stars ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • It's All About Him

    Finding the Love of My Life

    Alan and Denise Jackson's life seemed like a fairy tale: high school sweethearts marry young and leave small-town Georgia to pursue big dreams in Music City. They pay their dues, work hard, weather deep disappointments. Then their dreams come true.In fairy tales, the Jacksons' material success?plus their "perfect" marriage, their three beautiful daughters, and their supportive families?would have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Somebody to Love

    The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury

    A biography examining the final days of Freddie Mercury in the dawn of AIDS and the legacy he left behind.For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid bare. Including interviews from Freddie Mercury's closest friends in the last years of his life, along with personal photographs, Somebody to Love is an authoritative biography of the great man ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sleep, My Child, Forever

    The Riveting True Story of a Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children

    by John Coston ...
    The dark double life of Ellen Boehm, the mother who murdered her two sons—and nearly killed her daughter.Ellen Boehm, a single mom from St. Louis, Missouri, appeared devoted to her children. But in reality, she was unequipped for motherhood, financially strapped, and desperate. Within a year of each other, her sons, ages two and four, died mysteriously, and Boehm's eight-year-old daughter then ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Taste for Murder

    As seen on Investigation Discovery: "A true crime murder mystery that will leave you gasping for breath." —Steve Jackson, New York Times–bestselling author of No Stone UnturnedFrank Rodriguez, a much-loved counselor of troubled teens, lies dead on the bedroom floor. His wife and stepdaughter are in shock, and so is the medical examiner when he performs the autopsy. Aside from being dead, Frank is ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life in the Victorian Asylum

    The World of Nineteenth Century Mental Health Care

    by Mark Stevens ...
    A vivid portrait of the day-to-day experience in the public asylums of nineteenth-century England, by the bestselling author of Broadmoor Revealed.Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of nineteenth-century public asylums. This fresh take on the history of mental health reveals why county asylums were built, the sort of people they housed, and the treatments they received, as ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus