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Book cover of Love in Vain

Love in Vain

A Vision of Robert Johnson

by Alan Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012

Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring legends of modern music. Love in Vain is Alan Greenberg’s...
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Where Texas Meets the Sea

Corpus Christi and Its History

by Alan Lessoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015

A favorite destination of visitors to the Texas coast, Corpus Christi is a midsize city that manages to be both cosmopolitan and provincial, networked and local. It is an indispensable provider of urban services to South Texas, as well as a port of international significance. Its industries and military...
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And the Show Went On

Cultural Life in Nazi-occupied Paris

by Alan Riding
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010

On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. The only consolation was that, while the swastika now flew over Paris, the City of Light was undamaged. Soon, a peculiar kind of normality returned...
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by Alan Edward Nourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Alan Edward Nourse was an American science fiction author. Many of his science fiction titles focused on medicine or psionics.
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by Alan Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2010

Tony Schmidt joins the Central Hotline in sunny Bonita Beach, California to improve his listening skills. Shahla Lawton joins the Hotline to fulfill a volunteering requirement for her high school. Neither one expects to get mixed up in a murder investigation. But that is before Shahla’s best...
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Trinity of Passion

The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade

by Alan M. Wald
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald...
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by Greg Alan Brownderville
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016

A Horse with Holes in It, Greg Alan Brownderville’s third collection of poetry, employs inventive phrasing and vivid imagery to construct a particular life marked by religion, confused by desire, dulled by alcohol, and darkened by death. But Brownderville also skillfully uses humor to soften the...
Book cover of Purity: The Reconfiguration of Our Souls
by Christopher Alan Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012

In this article, the author looks at the necessity of purity for the reconfiguration of one's soul. The author is suggesting that illumination, in whatever its form, does not, and can not, arise from that which is impure. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education...
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by Alan Warner
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist. Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on the album, how it was composed, executed and recorded--including...
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Paul McCartney - Die Biografie

Mit einem Update von Alan Tepper

by Peter Ames Carlin, Alan Tepper
Language: German
Release Date: March 27, 2017

Was für ein Leben! Mit den Beatles hat er sich für alle Zeiten in der Musikgeschichte unsterblich gemacht und begeistert bis heute Millionen Fans. Bereits 50 Jahre ist es her, dass er erstmals 1960 in Hamburg auf der Bühne stand. Sir James Paul McCartney kann auf ein bewegtes Leben voller Erfolge,...
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by Marc Roberty, Alan Tepper
Language: German
Release Date: April 12, 2010

Das unentbehrliche Handbuch, vollgepackt mit Informationen zur Musik von Eric Clapton. Album für Album, Titel für Titel erfahren Sie alles Wissenswerte über einen der bedeutendsten Gitarristen der Rockgeschichte, der von seinen Fans liebevoll Slowhand genannt wird. Von den Yardbirds über...
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed

And Other Things I've Learned

by Alan Alda
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005

He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting...
Book cover of Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34
by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015

Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.   The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion...
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The Accidental Universe

The World You Thought You Knew

by Alan Lightman
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

“Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences—old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite...
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