Posts Tagged ‘Paperback’

The Best in Rock Fiction (Paperback)

From Booklist

Rock and roll has proven itself to be a paradigm-making art form, an irresistible vehicle for romance and angst, fantasy and rebellion, idealism and irony. Rock’s yin-yang capacity for celebrating good times and self-destructiveness, egomania and love for the universe, sexuality and sentimentality knows no bounds, and rock has profoundly influenced everything in its orbit, from advertisements to movies to literature. Editor Sawyers, whose many books include Racing i (more…)

Home: Webster’s Timeline History, 1947 – 1955 (Paperback)

Webster’s bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on “Home,” including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Home in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Home when it is used in proper noun form. Webster’s timelines cov (more…)

Items: Webster’s Timeline History, 4500 BC – 1990 (Paperback)

Webster’s bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on “Items,” including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Items in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Items when it is used in proper noun form. Webster’s timelines (more…)

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Glimpses (Paperback)

From Library Journal

Shiner ( Slam , LJ 8/1/90, among others) has written what may be the first rock n roll time-travel novel. Ray Chackleford is a self-employed electronics repairman whose marriage is foundering and whose father has recently died. These unresolved relationships are complicated when Ray travels to the Mexican site of his father’s death and promptly falls in love with a woman even more unstable than he. In the midst of this emotional turmoil, Ray–a rock drummer d (more…)

Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg (Paperback)

Easter Sunday, 1973: Just before dawn in Kingsburg, California, six-year-old Gordon Swannson, asthmatic boy genius, gets his ass kicked by a spectral Easter Bunny-an event that sends his already hyperactive imagination spiraling toward paranoia. Gordon becomes convinced that ghosts and other weird entities inhabit a daimonic reality that can interact with our everyday world. He starts seeing mystery and danger everywhere in his isolated farming community. He even thinks his best (more…)

The Copy Workshop Workbook 2002 (Paperback)

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R.E.M. : Talk About the Passion : An Oral History (Updated Edition) (Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly

What Sullivan’s oral history of alternative music giants R.E.M. (”Losing My Religion”) lacks in intimacy, it more than makes up for in personality. Prevented from interviewing band members and their families, Sullivan went after old hometown friends, record-label business associates and members of bands that at one time or another shared a concert bill with Athens, Ga.’s favorite sons. The interviewees who seem distant from the band professionally are often (more…)

Pink Floyd-The Press Reports (Paperback)

Pink Floyd ? The Press Reports 1966-1983 is an historical look at Pink Floyd, as seen through press reports of the major music papers during the years 1966 through 1983. Reported in this book are record reviews, band member interviews, reviews of live performances, reports of band projects, and more, in a chronological history culled from news articles of the time. Read what the press had to say about the beginnings of Pink Floyd in 1966, the rise of psychedelia in 1967, the (more…)