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  • Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom

    The Golden Age of Rock

    by Nik Cohn ...
    From the rise of Bill Haley to the death of Jimi Hendrix, this account of music in the 1950s and 1960s is "the definitive history of rock 'n' roll" ( Rolling Stone).This is British music journalist Nik Cohn's classic and cogent history of an unruly era—filled with outrageous tales and vivid descriptions of the music, and covering artists from Elvis Presley to Eddie Cochran to Bob Dylan to the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Triksta

    Life and Death and New Orleans Rap

    by Nik Cohn ...
    Acclaimed music writer Nik Cohn’s love of hip-hop goes back to its beginnings, and his love of New Orleans even further, to when he passed through the Big Easy on tour with The Who and discovered a place with a magic that never failed to seize him. On the surface he’s the least likely candidate for a rap impresario. But with his signature charm and passion, he plunges headfirst into the wards, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Corner Boy

    Loiterings New and Old

    by Nik Cohn ...
    Series Book 9 - ZE Series
    “The best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration.” —Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 Music“[A] longtime freelance scene-maker, [Cohn] practices a form of journalism that might be called loitering with intent . . . [He] was in the exact demographic place to feel the detonation of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who across a formerly dull, gray landscape. He was a pioneering ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Heart of the World

    by Nik Cohn ...
    "The history of Broadway has been written before, but never better....The verbal energy that pours off these pages is enough to transform the hell of...Times Square into a rough-hewn heaven, neon lit and open all night....The only thing wrong with this book is it isn't longer." —NEWSWEEKNik Cohn ushers readers along the street he calls "The Heart of the World." producing a book that is a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Need

    A novel

    by Nik Cohn ...
    New York City is in the grip of a bad-moon heat wave, with the street-corner preachers running amok. Into the fray, four damaged lives come together at a pet store on the Upper West Side, each one consumed by a private hunger and driven toward an inevitable fate. 304 pp. 15,000 print. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Rules of Civility

    A Novel

    by Amor Towles ...
    From the #1 New York Times**-bestselling author of** The Lincoln Highway and A Gentleman in Moscow**, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) book about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society—now with over one million readers worldwide**On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is i... ... Read more

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  • Just Kids

    An Autobiography

    by Patti Smith ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIt was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the ... Read more

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  • The Stories of Ray Bradbury

    by Ray Bradbury ...
    An extensive collection of imaginative short stories by a National Medal of the Arts–winning author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and suspense.Fly to Mars and explore the mysteries of the red planet. Journey through time to futures ruled by cold computers and hear the deafening roar of dinosaurs in the past. Sing the body electric and look into the mechanical eyes of androids that want to ... Read more

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  • A Christmas Story

    The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film

    by Jean Shepherd ...
    A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox.The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical ... Read more

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  • In God We Trust

    All Others Pay Cash

    by Jean Shepherd ...
    A collection of humorous and nostalgic Americana stories—the beloved, bestselling classics that inspired the movie A Christmas StoryBefore Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant—and utterly hilarious—works of comic art. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash represents one ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Drinking Life

    A Memoir

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