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“mickey hess”

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  • The Dirty Version

    On Stage, in the Studio, and in the Streets with Ol' Dirty Bastard

    by Buddha Monk, Mickey Hess ...
    On the tenth anniversary of his death, The Dirty Version is the first biography of hip hop superstar and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol' Dirty Bastard, to be written by someone from his inner circle: his right-hand man and best friend, Buddha Monk.Ol' Dirty Bastard rocketed to fame with the Wu-Tang Clan, the raucous and renegade group that altered the world of hip hop forever. ODB was one ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Guest in the House of Hip-Hop

    How Rap Music Taught a Kid from Kentucky What a White Ally Should Be

    by Mickey Hess ...
    Born in rural Kentucky, Mickey Hess grew up listening to the militant rap of Public Enemy while living in a place where the state song still included the word “darkies.” Listening to hip-hop made Hess think about what it meant to be white, while the environment in small-town Kentucky encouraged him to avoid or even mock such self-examination.With America’s history of cultural appropriation, we’ve ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Nostalgia Echo

    by Mickey Hess ...
    "THE NOSTALGIA ECHO is the best book you will read this year, or any year: the exact antidote to all those tired, humorless, beige-colored novels of recent memory, the writing here pops with both a dazzling intelligence and a devastating depth of character. Mr. Hess carries on in the great tradition of Vonnegut, D. Barthelme, and every other genius literary madman." —Joe Meno The wit and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Wheel At The Cracker Factory

    by Mickey Hess ...
    Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory is about choosing what you want to be when you grow up, and finding out you still have to wait tables on the weekends. The book follows one year in the life of an adjunct instructor who takes on side jobs as an ice cream man, stand-up comedian, haunted house character, and Billy Graham Crusader. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Angelina

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    by Andrew Morton ...
    The gripping true story of Angelina Jolie, from #1 New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton."I like to collect knives," says Angelina Jolie, "but I also collect first edition books." At first glance, she might seem to be someone without any secrets, talking openly about her love life, sexual preferences, drug use, cutting, and tattoos--and why she kissed her brother on the lips in ... Read more

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  • God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

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  • All the Flowers Are Dying

    by Lawrence Block ...
    Series Book 16 - The Matthew Scudder Series
    The New York Times–bestselling author "ratchets up the suspense with breathtaking results as only a skilled, inventive and talented writer can do" ( Orlando Sentinel).A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three horrific murders he must have committed but swears he didn't . . .An aging investigator in New York City has seen too much and lost too much—and is ready to leave the darkness ... Read more

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  • Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood

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    by Michael Lewis ...
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  • Thing of Beauty

    by Stephen Fried ...
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  • A Queer and Pleasant Danger

    The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today

    by Kate Bornstein ...
    A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman and became famous as a gender outlaw.Kate Bornstein—gender theorist, performance artist, author—is set to change lives with her compelling memoir. Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this ... Read more

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  • Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father

    A Memoir of My Father

    by Alysia Abbott ...
    A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco with an openly gay father.After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation—few of whom are raising a child.Steve throws ... Read more

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