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1954?A triumphant season for black ballplayers and the country Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Bill Madden delivers the first major book to fully examine the 1954 baseball season,...

When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club," she said in...

81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story Of A World War Ii Pilot In Alaska'S Frozen WildernessAuthor: Brian MurphyPublisher: Da Capo PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2016Number of Pages: 264...

In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas, historian Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a wartime Christmas season?the epic story of the 1950 holiday...

Author: Mark KurlanskyPublisher: Da Capo PressPublication Date: Mar 21, 1993Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0201622319ISBN-13: 9780201622317

The successful rock musician and songwriter chronicles his life in music, from his miserable childhood in a rough naval town, through his days as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, to the...

Explains the steps, movements, and other vernacular of ballet through line drawings and references to dances in which they are found.Author: Leo KersleyPublisher: Da Capo PressPublication Date: March...

The lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour goes undercover through various ghostbusting groups who do their best to gather information and evidence about the existence of spirits and shares his own...

Escapist fantasies usually involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich's dream was to focus on the riches of one small place?a few green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains...

Author: Irwin J. PolkPublisher: Da Capo PressPublication Date: Mar 22, 1997Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0306455706ISBN-13: 9780306455704

Almost a Woman: A Memoir (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)Author: Esmeralda SantiagoPublisher: Da Capo PressPublication Date: June 12, 2012Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Dee Dee Ramone doesn t quite know what he s getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the squalid Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. He spends most of his time trying to score...

?The best account to date of [how] an odd amalgamation of democracy and capitalism got written into New York's physical DNA.??New York Times ?Intriguing?breezy and highly readable.? ?Wall Street...

Author: Joseph G. BilbyPublisher: Da Capo PressPublication Date: Apr 19, 2005Number of Pages: 252 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0306814595ISBN-13: 9780306814594

A deeply moving and engaging memoir by Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst, cofounder of The Cure As two of the first punks in a provincial English town, Lol Tolhurst and Robert Smith didn't have it easy...

Devoted: The Story Of A Father'S Love For His SonAuthor: Dick HoytPublisher: Da Capo PressPublication Date: Mar 27, 2012Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Doug Stanhope is one of the most critically acclaimed and stridently unrepentant comedians of his generation. What will surprise some is that he owes so much of his dark and sometimes uncomfortably...

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) captured the hearts of America after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928. Nine years later, her disappearance on an around-the-world flight brought...

Entry in the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival From the author and director of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints comes a clever satire about fame, consumerism, and reality TV Meet Eddie Krumble. He's a...

When Eric Ryan is sent by Teach for America to a hard scrabble high school in the heart of North Carolina's NASCAR country, one of the many things he didn't count on was Harold Miller sticking his...

Feed Me I'M Yours: Baby Food Made EasyAuthor: Vicki LanskyPublisher: Da Capo PressPublication Date: Nov 02, 2004Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The 25th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time, with a new afterword by the author Return once again to the timeless account...

For a Safe and Healthy Birth? Your Way! Giving Birth with Confidence will help take the mystery out of having a baby and help you better understand how your body works during pregnancy and...

Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America uncovers a hidden history of the biggest psychedelic distribution and belief system the world has ever known. Through a collection of fast-paced interlocking...

Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood. "I...

One wouldn't usually turn to a veteran of Guns N' Roses for advice on how to live, but Duff McKagan is not a typical rock musician. He got sober at thirty, went back to school, got smart about money,...

During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions and widened the boundaries of free...

I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like, which collects Todd SniderÕs stories in print for the first time, takes readers on a tour through one of the most inventive and idiosyncratic minds at work today...

A memoir by the guitarist and founder of an influential thrash-metal band recounts his upbringing as a nerdy Jewish boy in Queens, the roles of favorite bands who shaped his ambitions and Anthrax's...