Gary: 4892 books
The Godfather of Silicon Valley
Ron Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Gary Rivlin tells the story of Ron Conway, the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone eise in Silicon Valley. Conway is a reader-friendly way into the realm of angel financing, where independently wealthy investors link up with companies just as they are being born. King of...
Visions of Jazz : The First Century
The First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1998
Poised to become a classic of jazz literature Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning and from the swinging...
Weather Bird
Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
Gary Giddins's Weather Bird is a brilliant companion volume to his landmark in music criticism, Visions of Jazz, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. More then 140 pieces, written over a 14-year period, are brought together for the first time in this superb collection of...
Satchmo
The Genius of Louis Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Gary Giddins has been called "the best jazz writer in America today" (Esquire). Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz musician of the century. Together this auspicious pairing has resulted in Satchmo, one of the most vivid and fascinating portraits ever drawn of perhaps...
Sit, Ubu, Sit
How I went from Brooklyn to Hollywood with the same woman, the same dog, and a lot less hair
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
A sports-crazed kid from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Gary David Goldberg never imagined he’d end up in Hollywood, let alone make it big there. But as a twenty-five-year-old waiter in Greenwich Village he met Diana, the love of his life; followed her out to Northern California; then moved in and never...
By U.S. Bonds
...that's my story
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
“A worthwhile rock ‘n’ roll memoir, and an inspiring story about following one’s bliss.” ~Kirkus Reviews— —Rock and roll legend Gary U.S. Bonds tells the story of his more than five decades in pop, soul, and rhythm and blues. From Sam Cooke to Bruce Springsteen, Bonds' memoir is about friends...
The New Breed
Systems for the Development of Your Own Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
(Percussion). Gary Chester was one of the busiest studio drummers of the '60s and '70s and played on hundreds of hit records. His systems have been used and endorsed by drummers such as Kenny Aronoff, Danny Gottlieb, and Dave Weckl. This is not just another drum book, but rather a system that will help...
by Gary Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
In 1953, Gary Snyder returned to the Bay Area and, at age 23, enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, to study Asian languages and culture. He intensified his study of Chinese and Japanese, and taking up the challenge of one of his professors, Chen Shih-hsiang, he began...
Absurdistan
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
“Absurdistan is not just a hilarious novel, but a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of socialism to the hell of capitalism in Eastern Europe than Shteyngart, the great-great grandson of one Nikolai Gogol...
by Gary Younge
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
From those who insist that Barack Obama is Muslim to the European legislators who go to extraordinary lengths to ban items of clothing worn by a tiny percentage of their populations, Gary Younge shows, in this fascinating, witty, and provocative examination of the enduring legacy and obsession with...
The Perfect Villain
John McCain and the Demonization of Lobbyist Jack Abramoff
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Gary S. Chafetz, a Boston journalist, set out to chronicle the scandal involving the gun-for-hire and super-lobbyist, Jack Abramoff. Instead, he uncovered a Shakespearean tragedy of deceit, betrayal, and political vendetta, in which the true villains were 2008 Republican nominee for President, Sen. John...
by Gary McNair
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
What would you do if everyone in the world
hated you?
Would you run?
Would you fight?
Or would you try to make them laugh?
Donald Robertson has no mates and he isn’t funny. But with guidance from his new mentor Gary, he hopes that this is all about to change.
Donald...
by Gary Rostock
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2011
A 15 minute 3 character play,somewhat Faustian in nature. The story revolves around Robert a young, gifted flamenco guitarist from Manchester, whose soul is wanted by two angels. Both offer him what he wants, but which path will he take?
Is spirit given to us? Are some people more soulful than others? Why if this is, is it so?
Read on to find out what path Robert takes.
The Most Dangerous Animal of All
Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
New York Times Bestseller
Soon after his birthmother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. His quest would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about...