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"After and during the Second World War there was no recording due to a musician"s strike over royalties and composer rights, there were V-Discs only, these went to the soldiers and radio, yes there was radio for music, and clubs, big bands were slo..."
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"[Kurt Vonnegut's] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it."-- Esquire Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The Sirens of Titan is an...
Player Piano (1952), Vonnegut's first novel, embeds and foreshadows themes which are to be parsed and dramatized by academians for centuries to come. His future society—a marginal extrapolation, Vonnegut wrote, of the situation he observed as an...
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play is Kobe Bryant's personal perspective of his life and career on the basketball court and his exceptional, insightful style of playing the game--a fitting legacy from the late Los Angeles Laker superstar. In the...
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism" (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings ) comes a memoir "as electric as the title...
