Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues

Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues
Joel Selvin (Author)

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AI don’t know where he’s buried, but if I did I’d piss on his grave.” AJerry Wexler, best friend and mentor

Here Comes the Night: Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues is both a definitive account of the New York rhythm and blues world of the early A60s, and the harrowing, ultimately tragic story of songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, whose meteoric career was fueled by his pending doom. His heart damaged by rheumatic fever as a youth, doctors told Berns he would not live to see twenty-one. Although his name is little remembered today, Berns worked alongside all the greats of the era A Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, Burt Bacharach, Phil Spector, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, anyone who was anyone in New York rhythm and blues. In seven quick years, he went from nobody to the top of the pops A producer of monumental r&b classics, songwriter of ATwist and Shout,” AMy Girl Sloopy” and others.

His fury to succeed led Berns to use his Mafia associations to muscle Atlantic Records out of a partnership and intimidate new talents like Neil Diamond and Van Morrison he signed to his record label, only to drop dead of a long expected fatal heart attack, just when he was seeing his grandest plans and life’s ambitions frustrated and foiled.

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• Published on: 2014-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

New York Jackie: Pictures from Her Life in the City

New York Jackie: Pictures from Her Life in the City
Bridget Watson Payne (Editor), Nan Talese (Introduction)

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As familiar as we are with images of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the charming former first lady, fewer know the dynamic woman who called New York City home. Shortly after JFK's assassination in 1964, Jackie moved to Manhattan and lived there for the next three decades. This intimate collection of photographs celebrates her life in the city as a mother, book editor, style icon, and most of all, a New Yorker. Eating ice cream with her kids on Fifth Avenue, working with authors at Doubleday Books, riding her bike through Central Park—these images capture the real-life joy, creative passion, and effortless grace of New York Jackie.

• Rank: #877669 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-11
• Released on: 2014-03-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics)

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics)
Daniel Paul Schreber (Author), Ida Macalpine (Author), Richard A. Hunter (Author), Rosemary Dinnage (Introduction)
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In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis was implicated in what he called a "crisis in God's realm," one that had transformed the rest of humanity into a race of fantasms. There was only one remedy; as his doctor noted: Schreber "considered himself chosen to redeem the world, and to restore to it the lost state of Blessedness. This, however, he could only do by first being transformed from a man into a woman...."

• Rank: #113691 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-31
• Released on: 2000-01-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.80" h x 5.08" w x 1.22" l, 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 488 pages

Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm

Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm
Jon Katz (Author)
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In Dog Days, Jon Katz, the squire of Bedlam Farm, allows us to live our dreams of leaving the city for the country, and shares the unpredictable adventure of farm life. The border collies, the sheep, the chickens, the cat, the ram, and one surprisingly sociable steer named Elvis all contribute to the hum (and occasional roar) of Bedlam. On timeless summer days and in punishing winter storms, Katz continues his meditation on what animals can selflessly teach us–and what we in turn owe to them. With good neighbors, a beautiful landscape, and tales of true love thrown in, Dog Days gives us not only marvelous animal stories but a rich portrait of the harmonious world that is Bedlam Farm.


Praise for Dog Days:

“Anyone who has ever loved an animal, who owns a farm or even dreams of it, will read Dog Days with appreciation and a cathartic lump in his or her throat.”
–The Washington Post

“Katz proves himself a Thoreau for modern times as he ponders the relationships between man and animals, humanity and nature, and the particularly smelly qualities of manure.”
–Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“Katz constructs the perfect blend between self-revelation and his subtle brand of humor.”
–The Star-Ledger

“City-dweller-turned-farmer Katz . . . returns with further adventures from his animal-filled upstate New York sheep farm. Charming.”
–People

“The perfect summer book . . . You will not be disappointed.”
–The Philadelphia Inquirer

“A new twist on the American dream.”
–The Christian Science Monitor

“Thoroughly enchanting.”
–The Dallas Morning News

• Rank: #382641 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-23
• Released on: 2008-09-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.80" h x 5.04" w x .71" l, .55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Leadership

Leadership
Rudolph W. Giuliani (Author), Ken Kurson (Collaborator)
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Rudolph Giuliani demonstrates how the leadership skills he practices can be employed successfully by anyone who has to run anything. Opens with a gripping account of Giuliani's immediate reaction to the September 11 attacks, including a narrow escape from the original crisis command headquarters, and closes with the efforts to address the aftermath during his remaining tenure.

• Rank: #8518 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-15
• Released on: 2002-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.30" h x 6.30" w x 9.20" l, 1.60 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 407 pages

• Hard Cover including Dusty Cover
• Written by Rudolph Giulani

The Day My Brain Exploded: A True Story

The Day My Brain Exploded: A True Story
Ashok Rajamani (Author)
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After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to relearn everything: how to eat, how to walk and to speak, even things as basic as his sexual orientation. With humor and insight, he describes the events of that day (his brain exploded just before his brother’s wedding!), as well as the long, difficult recovery period. In the process, he introduces readers to his family—his principal support group, as well as a constant source of frustration and amazement. Irreverent, coruscating, angry, at times shocking, but always revelatory, his memoir takes the reader into unfamiliar territory, much like the experience Alice had when she fell down the rabbit hole. That he lived to tell the story is miraculous; that he tells it with such aplomb is simply remarkable.

More than a decade later he has finally reestablished a productive artistic life for himself, still dealing with the effects of his injury—life-long half-blindness and epilepsy— but forging ahead as a survivor dedicated to helping others who have suffered a similar catastrophe.

• Rank: #6688 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-01-22
• Released on: 2013-01-22
• Format: Kindle eBook

Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger

Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger
Stephen H. Grant (Author)

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In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug.

Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr.

While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday, April 23, 1932.

The library houses 82 First Folios, 275,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, D.C., for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings.

The library provided Grant with unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault. He draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.

• Rank: #260871 in Books
• Published on: 2014-02-27
• Binding: Hardcover
• 264 pages

Rurally Screwed: My Life Off the Grid with the Cowboy I Love

Rurally Screwed: My Life Off the Grid with the Cowboy I Love
Jessie Knadler (Author)
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Jessie Knadler was a New York City girl, through and through. An editor for a splashy women's magazine, she splurged on Miu Miu, partied hard, lived for Kundalini yoga, and dated a man-boy whose complexion was creamier than her own. Circling the drain both personally and professionally, Jessie definitely wouldn't have described herself as "happy"; more like caustically content. Then one day, she was assigned a story about an annual rodeo in the badlands of Eastern Montana.

There, she met a twenty-five-year-old bull rider named Jake. He voted Republican and read Truck Trader. He listened to Garth Brooks. He owned guns. And Jessie suddenly found herself blindsided by something with which she was painfully unfamiliar: a genuinely lovable disposition. In fact, Jake radiated such optimism and old-school gentlemanliness that Jessie impulsively ditched Manhattan for an authentic existence, and an authentic man. Almost overnight, she was canning and sewing, making jerky, chopping firewood, and raising chickens. And all the while one question was ringing in the back of her head: "What the !#*$ have I done with my life?"

A hilarious true-life love story, Rurally Screwed reveals what happens to a woman who gives up everything she's ever known and wanted-job security, money, her professional network, access to decent Thai food-to live off the grid with her one true love (and dogs and horses and chickens), and asks, is it worth it? The answer comes amid war, Bible clubs, and moonshine.

• Rank: #34415 in Books
• Published on: 2012-04-03
• Released on: 2012-04-03
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

America's Got Talent Winner Landau Eugene Murphy Jr: From Washing Cars to Hollywood Star

America's Got Talent Winner Landau Eugene Murphy Jr: From Washing Cars to Hollywood Star
Landau Eugene Murphy Jr (Author), Rick Robinson (Author)

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In the summer of 2011, more than 14 million viewers each week watched with awe as a gifted vocalist from the coalfields of West Virginia rose to the top spot on NBC TV's "America's Got Talent." Soon, they will be able to read the amazing story behind Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.'s journey from washing cars to Hollywood stars. The story of Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. is more than a rags-to-riches story of some singer who won a reality show it's a story of faith, hope, destiny, and dreams. To many people, Landau is the young man with dreadlocks who sings like Sinatra, but the story to be told is that of a hard-working man of enduring faith. When you're finished reading this book, you ll discover that, along with having a great voice, Landau is a world-class human being.

• Rank: #276741 in Books
• Published on: 2013-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .65 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

The Dog Nobody Loved

The Dog Nobody Loved
Jon Katz (Author)

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Bombay--London--New York (Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare)

Bombay--London--New York (Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare)
Amitava Kumar (Author)
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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

• Rank: #267832 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-10-18
• Released on: 2013-10-18
• Format: Kindle eBook

Roth Unbound

Roth Unbound
Claudia Roth Pierpont (Author)
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