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"They were unlike any other band in the punk scene they called home. NoMeansNo started in the basement of the family home of brothers Rob and John Wright in 1979. For the next three decades, they would add and then replace a guitar player, sign a...
This is an audiobook about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson....
"I can't speak to the place that it captures, but it certainly captures a time... That time right before the smartphone. This is a such a subtle memoir that explores themes that people spend a lot of time screaming at each other about. Its subtlety..."
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"One of the classics of travel literature. It really takes you back in time to what it meant to travel to new worlds on the power of the wind. Also a great story of fearlessness, luck and perseverance. Bonus was it made me rethink ever taking a goa..."
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"A great premise for a manga, totally worth diving into. It's a period piece that is equal parts mystery and thriller that lends itself to interesting action, terrifying characters, great explorations of Indigenous food and religious practices in H..."
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